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Conclusions from the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2017
Each year in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum hosts their Annual Meeting. This year’s Annual Meeting had the theme of Responsive and Responsible Leadership. Following my return, I wanted to share my conclusions with you from the Annual Meeting and discuss their implications for business and health. There were two overarching conclusions related to business that came through during this year’s Annual Meeting. This first was the decline in trust among institutions, as indicated... More »
Derek Yach | Jan 24, 2017
behavioral economics, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, China, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, disease prevention, Edelman Trust Barometer, Health, technology, United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Wellcome Trust, Willis Towers Watson, World Economic Forum, Xi Jinping
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Release of Guidelines for Personalized Health Technology: Final Report
Do you know whether your employer can access and analyze data from your wearable device? Will your insurer use your smartwatch data to price your premium? Will your data from your mobile health application be protected and secured from malevolent... More »Gillian Christie | Mar 2, 2016
American Heart Association, data stewardship, ethical legal and social implications, EU Commission, evidence, FDA, Guidelines for Personalized Health Technology, HIMSS, Microsoft, National Academy of Medicine, personalized health technology, privacy, Qualcomm Institute, Vitality
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Managing aging and cognitive decline: challenges and opportunities for financial services
It is becoming evident across borders and industries that world population changes are having a serious impact. With a predicted 2.1 billion people over 60 by 2050, significant advancements must be made in order to adapt to a world soon... More »Dominic Lee and Derek Yach | Feb 29, 2016
AARP, Age UK, age-friendly, Alzheimer's, Barclays, Baroness Sally Greengross, cognitive decline, Dr. Daniel Marson, financial services, healthy aging, Ian Deary, London, Lothian Cohort, senior fraud, technology, Tokyo, University of Alabama, World Economic Forum
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The Gender Divide in Tech: A Leaky Pipeline
Women make up 56% of the US labor force and 51% of the US population. Meanwhile, only 20% of executives in the technology industry are women. The fact that women are often left out of high-level decision-making positions is not... More »Gabriela Seplovich and Sarah Kunkle | Feb 23, 2016
Amazon, Apple, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Deloitte, Facebook, gender, Girls Who Code, Google, innovative technology, Intel, National Center for Women and Information Technology, technology, technology industry, women
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Women, Health, and the Workplace
In January 2016, Mercer released an analysis of women in the international workforce entitled, “When Women Thrive, Businesses Thrive.” It determined that only 60-70% of the eligible female population participate in the workforce globally; these women consist of less than... More »Kristie Wellenborg | Feb 10, 2016
Barclays Bank, Dr. Anula Jayasuriya, E&Y, education, EXXClaim Capital, gender diversity, healthcare, Mercer, New York Times, Peterson Institute for International Economics, retention, The Vitality Group, Vitality, women, Women in Leadership Index
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Making Healthy Diets Affordable
Nineteenth century writer Virginia Woolf famously noted, “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well.” An unhealthy diet– is associated with four of the top ten risk factors that lead to premature death and... More »Gabriela Seplovich and Adriana Selwyn | Feb 2, 2016
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Today is Data Privacy Day!
On January 26, the health insurer Centene disclosed the misplacement of six hard drives containing personal information on 950,000 people. On January 27, Buzzfeed reported that fraudsters were trading data on Fitbit users for a mere 50 cents. On January... More »Gillian Christie | Jan 28, 2016
#TrustTech, Buzzfeed, Canada, Centene, Convention 108, data, data protection, FitBit, International Data Privacy Day, Natural Cyber Security Alliance, personalized health technology, privacy, United States
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Companies reporting on employee health: gamble or good risk management?
Fifteen years ago, companies would never have believed it would become common practice for them to track and publicly report on their water use, energy efficiency, and carbon footprint. It did. Today, with sessions at the World Economic Forum Annual... More »Shahnaz Radjy and Derek Yach | Jan 21, 2016
carbon footprint, community health, corporate reporting, data stewardship, Davos, employee health, energy efficiency, environment, ESG, health metrics, human capital, integrated reporting, materiality, privacy, risk management, sustainability, water use, WEF, World Economic Forum
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Revolutionizing Healthy Ageing
Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, contends that we are living in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The first industrial revolution (c.1750) delivered mechanical production, the second (c.1900) provided mass production, and... More »Derek Yach | Jan 20, 2016
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Longevity in the Workplace: 60 is the new 40
By Dominic Lee, Derek Yach, and Meghan Fitzgerald The ageing of the world’s population has significant implications for the workplace. For the first time in history, there will soon be more people over age 60 than under age 15 in the... More »Dominic Lee, Derek Yach, and Meghan Fitzgerald | Jan 18, 2016
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A Healthy Roundup: The 2016 Consumer Electronics Show
It is undeniable that health is undergoing an unprecedented digital revolution. This transformation was prominently displayed at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which took place from January 6-9, 2016 in Las Vegas, NV. According to the CES Daily, more than... More »Gillian Christie | Jan 13, 2016
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