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Hone Health, which offers a telehealth platform for longevity, is integrating BodySpec's clinical-grade DEXA body composition scans, enabling patients to purchase scans directly within the Hone Patient app.
BodySpec's DEXA scans measure lean muscle mass, visceral fat mass, resting metabolic rate, bone density, and total and regional body fat.
Hone Health is an AI-enabled telehealth clinic focused on longevity, leveraging diagnostics, data and physicians. The company integrates biomarker testing and imaging into its platform.
Through the partnership, patients will be able to purchase a BodySpec DEXA scan directly through the Hone app and read its results on the Hone platform. A clinician from Hone also reviews the results with the patient and uses the data to structure a patient's personalized care plan.
The partners say the aim is to help individuals spot health issues early.
"Weight alone doesn't reveal how metabolically healthy someone is," Saad Alam, founder and CEO of Hone Health, said in a statement.
"BodySpec's DEXA scans show whether a patient is losing fat, gaining muscle, or losing bone density. When our physicians can see that data alongside hormone and metabolic markers, they can adjust treatment earlier and more accurately. That's what connected longevity care looks like."
THE LARGER TREND
Last year, Hone Health completed a $33 million Series A funding round, bringing its total raise to $39 million.
According to a report by Deloitte, healthcare is shifting from treating individual diseases to targeting the biology of aging itself driven by longevity science, with a focus on extending "health span," or the years a person lives in good health.
In turn, a new longevity ecosystem is emerging, made up of biotech companies, health technology and AI firms, academic researchers, and governments and investors, the report said. Deloitte anticipates longevity could become a major healthcare market as consumers increasingly prioritize prevention and wellness, and as these become central to care delivery.
