VANCOUVER, BC / TheNewswire / January 17, 2017 - Blue Mesa Health Inc., an international digital therapeutics company with offices in Vancouver and New York, is pleased to announce that it has launched Transform DPP, its science-based digital diabetes prevention program, in Canada.

According to the Canadian Diabetes Association, one in three Canadians will either be prediabetic (at high risk for type 2 diabetes) or diabetic by 2020. Blue Mesa Health Inc. (“Blue Mesa”) launched its digital Diabetes Prevention Program (“DPP”) Transform in 2015 in the USA.

The program is based on the landmark US program presently delivered nationwide to address the problem of rising chronic disease-related health costs in the American health care system. The program combines software, home health monitoring via wireless scales, Fitbit activity trackers, and remote health coaching to guide participants through a clinically validated 16- week program. The program curriculum is derived from the results of a decade-long RCT, endorsed and validated by the CDC, American Medical Association and many other prominent population health organizations. The goal of the program is for participants to lose approximately 5-7% of their body weight and statistically reduce type 2 diabetes risk by 58%.

“I have seen firsthand the effectiveness of our program with participants in the United States. We’ve got people from coast to coast who are making changes and significantly reducing their risk for type 2 diabetes,” said Blue Mesa Health Inc. CEO Curtis Duggan. “People’s lives have been dramatically changed.”

“Canadians often hear about the access politics of the US health care system than they do about the great innovations like the DPP. With DPP, many federal, state-level, and community organizations came together to create a groundbreaking program that addresses chronic disease with a fairly simple but powerful concept — prevention through behavior change. What we’ve done is made this really convenient to access — with a scale and Fitbit delivered to your home, an app, a remote health coach, a digital support group. It’s just a great model for delivering this to as many people as possible.”

Blue Mesa is currently delivering a pilot program to Mount Sinai Health System in New York City. Blue Mesa Health is also a member of the Solera Health (“Solera”) network, which currently connects DPP providers with eligible participants in the Anthem Blue Cross network and other health plans across the United States.

For more information, contact:

Curtis Duggan, CEO and Cofounder

Telephone: 1-250-213-3793

Email: curtis.duggan@bluemesahealth.com

About Blue Mesa Health Inc.

Blue Mesa is a digital therapeutics company with headquarters in New York and Vancouver. Blue Mesa provides a digital therapeutics program in the USA and Canada based on the CDC’s landmark National Diabetes Prevention Program. Employers, health plans, accountable care organizations, hospital systems and Medicare payer customers are recognizing the return on investment provided by digitally delivered preventive health programs. Blue Mesa has raised Series AA funding from Vancouver-based firm Stanley Park Ventures Inc., publicly traded technology firm Mobio Technologies Inc. and other US investors.

About the Diabetes Prevention Program
CDC National Diabetes Prevention Program Overview: https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/

prevention/index.html

NIH Overview: https://www.niddk.nih.gov/about-niddk/research-areas/diabetes/diabetes- prevention-program-dpp/Pages/default.aspx

Original New England Journal of Medicine Study (NEJM, 2002): http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/ 10.1056/neJmoa012512#t=article

Diabetes Care 10-Year Follow-Up Study (Diabetes Care, 2012): http:// care.diabetesjournals.org/content/diacare/35/4/723.full.pdf

For more information, contact:

Curtis Duggan, CEO and Cofounder

Telephone: 1-250-213-3793

Email: curtis.duggan@bluemesahealth.com

Web: letstransform.ca