Spike Health Insights: Unified health scores for Sleep, Activity, Readiness, and Stress

From wearables to smart sensors, modern technology captures an astounding array of health metrics: steps, heart rate, sleep stages, heart rate variability (HRV), and dozens of other indicators. Yet, for most users, raw numbers and charts raise more questions than they answer: “What does this mean for me?”

That’s where Spike Health Insights comes in.

We’ve built a suite of standardized 0–100 scores that transform raw data from any wearable into clear, actionable insights. No matter which device your users connect, you get one consistent score, and they get a simple way to understand their health and wellness.

And if you’re building on Spike, these scores are already included.

What is Spike Health Insights?

Spike Health Insights is a suite of standardized 0–100 health scores that transform raw biometric data into clear, actionable insights for your end user.

Instead of juggling device-specific metrics, developers get unified scores they can plug directly into their products. Instead of users trying to interpret raw data, end users get one clear number they can understand and act on.

The suite currently includes four scores:

• Sleep Score (0–100): Measures overall sleep quality using duration, efficiency, sleep stages, HRV, and more.
• Activity Score (0–100): Quantifies daily movement and exercise intensity.
• Readiness Score (0–100): Indicates how prepared the body is for the day by blending recovery and performance signals.
• Stress Score (0–100): Reflects daily physiological stress load based on HRV and related metrics.

The Spike Health Insights works across all wearables, sensors and apps. Built by industry experts and aligned with industry best practices, the scores deliver reliable and easy-to-understand health insights.

All four scores are available now as part of the Spike API for Tier 2 clients and above. If you’re using Spike, you already have access to them.

Benefits for developers

Implementing Spike Health Insights offers several immediate advantages:

• Consistency: No need to manage device-specific scoring systems. One integration works across all wearables.
• Efficiency: Skip building and maintaining your own models. Scores are generated automatically and are part of the Spike API output.
• Scalability: Add new device integrations without extra development work. The scores are built using raw data and stay consistent.
• User engagement: End users understand scores better than raw data, making your app more engaging.
• Cost and time savings: Unified scores reduce R&D, cut development time, and speed up time-to-market.
• User engagement: End users understand scores better than raw data, making your app more engaging.
• Competitive advantage: Most apps stop at raw data. With Spike Health Insights, you can go further by giving users simple, meaningful scores that few products in the market offer. That makes your app not just another dashboard but a go-to place for real health insights.

Spike Health Insights is designed to be plug-and-play. If you’re already building with Spike, you don’t need additional infrastructure or modeling pipelines.

Benefits for end users

Ultimately, the value of health data comes down to the person using it. End users gain:

• Clarity: Instead of trying to understand HRV charts or sleep stage graphs, they get a single number that summarizes their health metric.
• Consistency: Whether your users wear a Garmin today and a Fitbit tomorrow, they still get the same 0-100 metric.
• Actionability: Scores provide clear guidance. Low readiness may mean rest; high stress may suggest recovery activities.
• Mental and behavioral benefits: Users feel empowered, motivated, and less overwhelmed by data, helping them make better decisions about sleep, activity, recovery, and stress management.

This makes health data less intimidating and more empowering, exactly what most users want, and in turn makes your app more attractive and engaging.

Real-world applications

Wellness apps

Surface meaningful insights to users. Instead of raw HRV values, you can tell them: “Your Stress Score is high today. Try a quick breathing session.”

Provide interpretable data to practitioners. Sleep, activity, readiness and stress scores can be used consistently across different applications.

Fitness platforms

Correlate workouts with recovery. A user with a high Readiness Score might get a push notification to increase intensity, while a low score suggests rest.

By unifying health data, Spike Health Insights unlocks new use cases that fragmented metrics could never support.

Personalization potential

Spike Health Insights doesn’t just provide simple scores; it creates opportunities for personalized recommendations.

By tracking trends over time, your app can offer tailored guidance. For example, a consistently low Sleep Score can suggest a customized bedtime routine, while patterns in Activity and Readiness Scores can indicate the ideal workout intensity.

Unified metrics make personalization simple, actionable, and reliable across any device, enhancing user satisfaction and retention.

Start building with Spike Health Insights

The four scores, Sleep, Activity, Readiness, and Stress, are available now through the Spike API for Tier 2 clients and above.

If you’re already building with Spike, you don’t need to do anything extra. These scores are included and ready to use.

Check out the developer documentation or schedule a demo to see how Spike Health Insights can help your app deliver better outcomes for users.

With Spike’s 360° Health Data API, you don’t just get data; you get clarity, consistency, and confidence for both developers and end users.

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