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Workplace Wellness Lab delivers leading insights, ideas and information on wellness, health management, and healthy living.

Our goal is simple: Workplace Wellness Lab provides regular and better information as an important path to create healthy individual outcomes, while helping change health care in America.

By connecting the audiences that matter – consultants, corporate executives, policymakers, thought leaders, journalists, customers, and more – we establish a positive, substantive, and influential voice within the wellness industry that makes the case that:

    • Left unchecked, current trends in health spend and outcomes are unsustainable.
    • Given that half the healthcare dollars in this country are incurred by employers, well-executed preventive care health management programs in the worksite are clearly enduring and valuable, helping drive improved workplace environments and individual outcomes.
    • Industry coherence around private sector innovation to drive effective health management programs is economically vital, given what’s possible in a spend category that is arguably one of the greatest challenges in America today.

Workplace Wellness Lab comes at this challenge principally from the employer point of view: What are the credible and demonstrated best practices in preventive care to structure programs that have an enduring impact? How can the impact be made explicit, as something that is both the right thing to do and a proactive business initiative that lowers the cost of care, as experienced by both employers and employees?

And Workplace Wellness Lab goes beyond the workplace. It’s a robust platform filled with ideas and insights from those that influence how employers think about this opportunity: research organizations, non-profits, think tanks and more.

From an editorial point of view, great ideas can come from anywhere. With that philosophy in mind, we will combine our own original content with other content across the web. We organize the content, with a view to making it as simple and useful as possible.

All content will be sourced. If we found it somewhere, we’ll tell you where we got — and how to get to that site yourself.

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Data privacy concerns have shown up in the news recently, particularly in the discussion of how various companies may be using  personal health information.

Working Wellness Hub followers know that we've reported frequently on a key fact: Not only is strictly managing personal data privacy central to any effective workplace wellness program, but also companies must be extraordinarily careful and responsible regarding any extrapolating they do with the data.

Given the new headlines, we thought it'd be helpful to review some of the topics we've covered:

9 Ways Corporate Wellness Programs Are Changing: Our post just last week noted one trend — “One of the biggest concerns for employees is that their health data isn’t secure, or employers will use it to diminish their rights in their place of work. This year, companies will look for more ways to create a secure system that ensures employees data is safe and neutral.”

To Increase Employee Engagement, Consider Privacy Concerns: While privacy concerns are in the news again, smart companies have been focused on them already. Last fall we noted that, “As employers continually seek ways to increase employee engagement in their workplace wellness programs, a new survey may help identify an area to address: Privacy.”

Wellness Programs and Employee Privacy: Transparency is key. More than two years ago, we noted: “From the beginning of any wellness campaign, an employer has to answer three important questions: 1) Why are employees being asked to share private health information?; 2) How is the information protected?; 3) What, if anything, will the employer do with the information once it is shared?”

Privacy Concerns Decrease Wellness Participation: Back in October, 2014, we noted: “‘Although employers and insurers increasingly turn to wellness programs to help lower healthcare costs, participation and engagement rates are still lacking. And according to a recent survey… privacy concerns and lack of time are the leading obstacles to employees participating in their companies’ wellness programs,' Fierce Health Payer reports.”

Companies Need Better Communication About Wellness Programs: Effectively communicating how you maintain data privacy matters, too. We reported on a Brodeur Partners survey that showed “some employees resist programs that are in place for reasons including privacy concerns (50 percent).”

Wellness Plans Must Protect Employee Privacy: And with the increase of technology in wellness programs, we also brought readers a CIO Insight report that noted: “The critical issue—and something that will be a theme across all facets of business over the next decade—is that society, and CIOs, must find ways to use technology to benefit a business, employees, partners and customer—without stepping over any ethical lines. Technology should reward, not punish, individuals. Push too far or abuse private data and you’re likely to see some very healthy pushback.”

Exactly.

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