Saturday 12 March 2016

It’s Open Season On Employees’ Health Data

On Friday news broke of a non-profit business alliance formed among twenty top US companies with the goal of keeping down their in total 4-million employees’ health care costs.

The group, the undefinedHealth Transformation Alliance, plans to do this “bringing increased innovation, better analyses of the latest data, and greater leverage into how corporations obtain coverage for their workers.”

If you are one of these four million workers and believe that your medical information is your business and not your employers, you may have a problem because clearly employees’ health metrics are going to play a big role in this initiative. For the full article click here 



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