An app to achieve and maintain health

Health and fitness product naming

In keeping with healthcare giant Aetna’s commitment to improving its members’ health while reducing healthcare costs, the company partnered with Apple to provide its members an innovative healthcare service: a highly personalized smart watch–based app that helps them achieve and maintain wellness through daily prompts.

The service combines a member’s health history with their Apple Watch activity to provide custom goals, achievable actions, and big incentivizing rewards—like gift cards from popular retailers. What truly distinguishes this service is the use of members’ actual healthcare data. The app helps coordinate every aspect of health, from activity, nutrition, and sleep tracking to managing medical appointments, healthcare costs, and more.

We developed more than 1,600 names for the app, and, after screening and further review, Attain crossed the finish line.

Attain instantly expresses the empowerment and satisfaction of achieving health goals through daily activity. Its bold and slightly techy tone expresses the confidence this technology instills, while its brevity and simplicity suggest that working toward better health can be a straightforward process, available to anyone. The name’s alliteration with Aetna (and Apple) helps make it more memorable and fun to say as well as offering a graphical symmetry between the company and product. And as a common English word, the name, and the service’s benefit, can be easily understood by customers with limited English.

Attain by Aetna was announced in early 2019, with about 300,000 downloads during the initial rollout. It received significant media attention, with coverage in national mainstream press as well as health and tech media. The Aetna program is still going strong, with members continuing to earn a free Apple Watch by progressing toward their wellness goals.

Award Winner
Transform Awards, Highly Commended, Best Naming Strategy

Client
Aetna
Aetna
Industry
B2C Tech
Health & Biotech
Service
Product Naming
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Short is sweet

Although shorter isn’t always better, when it comes to app naming, keep app store character limitations firmly in mind. To ensure that the name of Aetna’s powerful tool would appear in full in app store lists and on small screens, we limited our exploration to words no longer than 12 characters.

Attain by Aetna
Making a difference, one day at a time

The staff at Children’s Home Society of Florida work every day to help build healthier homes for families in their state but sometimes struggle to prioritize their own health. Attain by Aetna has helped. ”Our team members are always on the go and have a lot on their plates. Attain makes it easy for our team to stay motivated and reminded to take care of themselves every day.”

“We designed Attain for everyone. … We understand that you don't need to be a personal trainer or work out several hours a day to be healthier. We're designing Attain to be personalized and clinically relevant to where each individual is in their health journey.”

Alan Lotvin, MD | Executive Vice President of Transformation, CVS Health

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