The drugstore chain wants its employees to give the company information on their weight and fitness so that the company can find out their baseline health metrics and try to improve. If they don’t, their insurance bill goes up. Is this a good use of data, or an infringement on privacy?
Health care has long been ripe for disruption. Now, an emerging group of hot startups and savvy execs are going all-in on building bigger, smarter, and--yes--sexier health care technologies. Is change finally coming? Jonathan Bush and Dr. Kyra Bobinet explain.
Health care has long been ripe for disruption. Now, an emerging group of hot startups and savvy execs are going all-in on building bigger, smarter, and--yes--sexier health care technologies. Is change finally coming? The space’s rock stars explain.
Health care has long been ripe for disruption. Now, an emerging group of hot startups and savvy execs are going all-in on building bigger, smarter, and--yes--sexier health care technologies. Is change finally coming? Practice Fusion's Tamara Khan explains.
A few years ago, IBM’s new computer was a game-playing curiosity. Now Watson is poised to change the way human beings make decisions about medicine, finance, and work.
Thanks to the Roberts court, an elusive market segment long coveted by insurers is within reach--but only for those companies that speak to the needs of young consumers, and do so in a language that educates, motivates, and inspires them to make the right choices.
Issues related to work and life will directly impact economic growth that presidential and congressional candidates say is their primary focus. Productivity and innovation can’t happen without considering the reality people face on and off the job.
In our flailing attempts to fix our health care system, there are some rays of hope. Insurance providers are being forced to start thinking of patients as people, not as revenue streams.
