What keeps us up at night?

Only 2% of patients in the US use digital health apps. There are over 300,000 “health apps” in the app stores with an average use time of 5 days. To make matters worse most of these apps are essentially Trojan horses for your personal information, collect your email, phone number and the informed consent on the data use is buried in a long privacy policy. We can do better than this.

Not everything is doomy and gloomy. Over 50% of adults in the US play video games (retention is possible). There are a few mobile health apps that are now receiving FDA and DiGA (Germany) status to validate claims they actually help people. Finally, blockchain technology enables developers to build apps that do not require email or phone numbers to sign up, empowering people around the world to truly own their health data, some people call this Web3, we call it a necessary future and your human right. There is hope for a better brighter future where people are empowered and own their data, while potentially powering breakthrough innovations of tomorrow. We are pumped.

In 2020, we asked ourselves what if we could build ethical health-focused games to help people live healthier, longer and better lives?

The "BetterQuest" vision was born

After building blockchain-based apps for several years with incredible life science multinational organizations who believed in our little Canadian startup, in 2020 we understood that the next generation of health applications require a different set of skills. We hired incredible game designers, binaural beat audio engineers, technical artists, storytellers and game economy geniuses. We quietly built a world class team and went hard to work.

The result of our love and labor is BetterQuest - a game where you repair the world by taking care of yourself. The world of Balenz has become a scorched earth and with your healthy energy you can convert polluted streams to glowing lakes filled with life and make some friends along the way. Earn healthy energy by:

Tracking your activity outside

Doing meditations In Real Life (IRL)

Taking photos of your food

Who is behind BetterQuest.io

Bowhead Health is an Ottawa, Canada based health technology startup. Bowhead was co-founded in 2016 and develops technology with the following core values:

• Build technology that empowers patients with evidence-based research
• Create an ethical consent-first data ecosystem
• Develop privacy-preserving tools to guarantee self-sovereign data ownership

We believe that a health data platform is only useful if patients have self-sovereign data ownership and control. By using blockchain we are able to provide verifiable proof that people own their encryption keys and can securely interact with other entities (such as their trusted doctors) using Smart Contracts.