Your patients do great in the supervised gym, then vanish the moment they walk out the door. The home-exercise sheet ends up on the fridge, unchecked, and the “yes, I’ve been walking” you hear at the next visit is anyone’s guess. Drop-off is the silent killer of outcomes — and by the time a low completion rate shows up in your reporting, the graduation window has already closed.
- Phase II and III patients disengage between clinic visits, and there’s no way to know who actually did their prescribed home walking and strength work.
- Self-reported logs and honor-system checklists are unreliable — you’re making progression decisions on numbers a patient may have filled in from memory.
- Staff burn hours on reminder calls and no-show follow-up instead of on face-to-face care that moves outcomes.
- Completion and adherence metrics that funders and referring cardiologists ask for are soft, delayed, and hard to defend.
How Cadoo solves it
Money on the line turns intention into a finished session
Patients bet a small stake with peers on hitting their daily movement goal — a step target from their care plan, or a set of gentle strength holds. Because real dollars are riding on it, the fridge checklist becomes something they actually complete. You set the goal; the wager does the nagging so your staff don’t have to.
Every rep and step is verified — no honor system
Cadoo counts and form-scores bodyweight moves like squats, situps, and plank holds straight from the phone camera, so a rep only counts when it’s done properly. Daily steps come directly from the patient’s Apple Health or Google Health Connect data, not a typed-in number. The adherence you report is measured, not remembered — defensible to referring cardiologists and funders alike.
Leagues, leaderboards, and shareable wins keep the cohort engaged
Patients compete in friendly leagues and climb a leaderboard alongside others in their program, turning solitary home exercise into a shared push. Every completed goal becomes a skinned highlight clip they can share — the small, repeated wins that keep someone coming back day after day through a twelve-week program and beyond.
Frequently asked questions
How does Cadoo help Cardiac Rehab?
Cadoo keeps your patients adherent to their home-exercise prescription between clinic visits. Patients put a small amount of money on the line to hit their daily goal, and Cadoo verifies the work — bodyweight moves counted and form-scored by the phone camera, steps read straight from Apple Health or Google Health Connect. You get real, measured adherence data instead of self-reported guesses, and your staff stop spending their days on reminder calls.
Is the verification safe and appropriate for recovering cardiac patients?
You control the prescription. Cadoo verifies gentle, low-intensity work that fits a rehab plan — daily step targets and controlled bodyweight moves like squats, situps, and timed plank holds — with form-scoring so a rep only counts when it’s performed correctly. The camera handles reps; steps are read passively from the patient’s health app. Nothing is prescribed by Cadoo, so goals stay inside the limits your clinicians set.
How do we set Cadoo up for our program?
You can create a game for your cohort in minutes through the Cadoo Upside Hub, or email Tim@cadoo.io and we’ll help you configure goals and onboard your patients.
Ready to launch a game for cardiac rehabilitation program operators?
Set up a branded, camera-verified fitness game through the Cadoo Upside Hub, or talk to us and we’ll build it with you.