Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman today announced the launch of Luffu (“loo-foo”), a new health app for families that will eventually expand to hardware devices too. Here are the details.
Luffu aims to create ‘an intelligent family care system’
The creators of Fitbit have even bigger ambitions in the health space. Those ambitions are being funneled into the just announced company Luffu, which aims to create “an intelligent family care system.”
To start, Luffu has built an app-based service designed for families, “with the goal of expanding into an ecosystem of first-party hardware products designed to complement the service.”
From Luffu’s website:
Track the whole family’s details effortlessly, such as health stats, diet, medications, symptoms, lab tests, doctor visits, and more, and see the big picture of everyone’s wellbeing. Coordinate with family members and caregivers so you’re all on the same page, and nothing gets missed.
Luffu’s iPhone app, which is currently available in public beta via a waitlist, offers a hub for family members to share health data and updates with one another.
The app integrates with Fitbit, of course, but also Apple Health, and platforms that store medical records.
What about user privacy? Details are a bit sparse, but here’s what Luffu says:
because trust is foundational, Luffu is designed to be a guardian, not surveillance—users are always in control of exactly what is shared, with whom, and privacy and security are paramount for all family data.
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