AOK DiGO

The Internet, smartphones and digital applications are becoming increasingly powerful and are now often the first point of contact for health questions. Experience has shown that with increasing digitalization, more and more questions arise: • How and where can I find reputable and trustworthy information on topics related to my health? • How do I recognize reputable health sources? • How do I find the right apps, gadgets and online courses for me? • How do I recognize dubious information, apps and gadgets? • How do I protect my data? • What are search engines and artificial intelligence and how can I use them to promote my health? • Where can I safely find food and health products? The answer lies in digital health literacy, i.e. the ability to search for and find health information on the Internet in a targeted and individual manner, to understand it, to classify it correctly and to use it. DiGO was developed by AOK together with employers and an interdisciplinary team of experts to help promote digital health literacy, especially in a work context. In the app, you learn to better classify health information and offers in the digital world and make better health decisions in freely selectable interactive chapters with motivating quiz elements. To date, DiGO is the only skills training of its kind that makes you sustainably fit in terms of “digital health skills” – relevant to everyday life, solution-oriented, entertaining and effective – available at any time on your smartphone. With freely selectable chapters from the most important subject areas of health, DiGO gives learners with any previous knowledge the opportunity to explore the world of health literacy at their own pace, in a playful and realistic manner. Each chapter is based on a didactic concept specifically aimed at working people and offers a systematic development of skills that enable them to act and make decisions in a context-independent, appropriate and, above all, personalized manner.