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Alfred Poor Talks About Health Wearables at CES (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the hup-two-three-four-five-six-seven dept.

The biggest shift in wearables that Alfred Poor saw at CES was from consumer wearables to wearables designed to serve corporate goals, especially cutting health care costs. He says that when it comes to fitness and other health-related wearables, "consumer is the past and business is the future."

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  1. Re: Agreed by ArmoredDragon · · Score: 2

    It's probably also more likely to improve your overall health, which is hard to argue is a bad thing.

    My company is self insured (we go through a major provider but we only use them to take advantage of their contract rates with doctors in their network) and while they don't require anything like fitness bands, they do offer free programs (I.e fitness classes, diet programs) and offer an incentive (lower premium cost) if you either meet certain health standards OR show year over year improvement in those metrics.

    And before somebody snarks about employer provided coverage, I'm in need of a kidney transplant, which they cover 100% (not even so much as a copay) and I'm just a rank and file employee.