Life Insurance, Wellness and Privacy
Wellness programs are coming to life insurance. These programs are structured similarly to programs offered by employers and health...
Table for Two: Your App and You
You walk into a coffeehouse and look at the menu. Just as you are about to order a large coffee drink with whipped cream and caramel,...
Are Wellness Incentives Coercive?
Last week Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Rep. John Kline (R-MN) introduced the Preserving Employee Wellness Programs Act in Congress....
Lying, Cheating and Wellness
“Just put your fitness tracker on the dog and let the dog run around in the yard.” “I simply lied on the health risk assessment about the...
Workplace Wellness, Privacy and the Internet of Things
On January 27, 2015 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a staff report titled “Internet of Things: Privacy and Security in a...
How Wellness Programs Threaten Privacy, Part II
As workplace wellness programs become increasingly common, we hear more questions about whether they fulfill one of their main stated...
How Wellness Programs Threaten Privacy
Would you be comfortable sharing sensitive health and lifestyle information with a representative of your employer? Would you tell them...
Believing Machines
There was an interesting and thoughtful article recently about the implications of the Canadian case in which evidence from a Fitbit is...
Fitness Trackers, Wellness Programs, and New Data Pools
On November 16, 2014, Forbes published an article about what appears to be the first case of using data from a fitness tracker in...
How Wellness Incentives Work
Most American companies now have wellness programs and most of these programs use some kind of financial incentives to increase employee...