Impact, New Research, Our Point of View

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 cybercriminals? These deal-breaking questions may result in a failure to deliver widespread health benefits if...

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

Impact, New Research, Our Point of View

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 Meeting in Davos on “Health is the Bottom Line” and recognition that human capital is...

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

New Research, Our Point of View

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 the third (c.1960) brought computers. Today, the fourth industrial revolution is ushering in ubiquitous, mobile,...

Derek Yach | Jan 20, 2016
3D printing, aging, artificial intelligence, data stewardship, Davos, Derek Yach, Fourth Industrial Revolution, Global Agenda Council on Ageing, innovative technology, internet of things, Klaus Schwab, personalized health technology, rapid gene sequencing, robotics, WEF, World Economic Forum