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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.

We also welcome your comments — criticisms, ideas, and, yes, we take compliments, too! Have a thought of what you’d like to see — or see something you think others should know — drop us a line.

Thanks for visiting – and please come back again!

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Ensuring that any workplace wellness program scrupulously protect a member's personal data is imperative. As these concerns have been raised, we have posted pieces — like this one from Interactive Health CEO Cathy Kenworthy — extolling the importance of properly managing data.

NPR's Health News provided a useful guide of “7 Questions To Ask Your Boss About Wellness Privacy.” Among them:

  • “What information will my employer see? Workers should ask exactly what information will get back to their company and whether it will identify them.”
  • “Is the program covered under the HIPAA privacy law?”
  • “I don't understand the privacy policy. Did I give up my HIPAA rights when I filled out my health assessment on the wellness site?”
  • “My employer says it sees only group results. Does that guarantee privacy?”
  • “How many other companies see my wellness data? Employees deserve a clear explanation of which companies get their data, what form it takes, how recipients will use it and how it is protected, privacy advocates say.”
  • “What privacy policies do subcontractors and other third parties have to follow?”
  • “Could somebody try to identify individuals in the group results shared by my wellness plan?”

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