Analyze your health condition with big data so that you can see the possibility of pregnancy and the susceptibility to disease

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When you become an employer, you are concerned about the health condition of employees, but you can collect service data that gathers personal data on health and finds health problems,Castlight HealthYaWelltokCompanies such as offering.big dataBy analyzing massive amounts of health information that have been converted, we are finding employees who are prone to the disease, and also knowing whether or not a woman is pregnant. In the United States, it is said that healthcare data analysis service Introduction has begun.

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In the United States, including large companies such as Walmart and JP Morgan Chase, health care of employees and contracts with healthcare companies to receive healthcare data so that employees can receive appropriate treatment when they become sick We are entrusting the collection and utilization of these products. For example, analyze data such as employee prescription drugs, shopping methods, whether or not they went to the election, and if any health problems are found, please take notes for keeping health, recommended hospitals, It seems that treatment methods and so on are sent by e-mail to employees. According to the Wall Street Journal, if you do not want to collect health information, you can also personally refuse data collection.

Services that manage the health of company employees are Castlight,Welltok,Jiff,ActiveHealth ManagementGNS HealthcareMany companies are beginning to offer such as. Health management system developed by Castlight Health "Castlight Action"It is possible to calculate the possibility of pregnancy by gathering data on health of women, the number of children who gave birth, whether they are taking pills, and other health data. A woman suspected of having a high possibility of pregnancy seems to be able to receive all information on health management during pregnancy by e - mail.

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However, Castlight says that not all employee health data is disclosed to employers. It seems that it is a system that can not see personal data such as what employee is suffering from disease due to "consideration of employee's privacy problem", even Castlight's development team, individuals of customers Medical information can not be seen.

The employer said that instead of seeing personal information of employees, Castlight will provide data on "how many people are susceptible to the disease in the company". For example, "There are 2000 people considering back surgery in the company", "1,500 people suspected of diabetes", "460 women desiring pregnancy" have become figures It seems to be. Moreover, in order to make it difficult to identify which employee is suffering from illness, it is said that illnesses with fewer than 40 patients are not notified to the employer.

An employer contracting a healthcare data analysis service frequently complains that "we can not know the health problems of employees in detail". However, Wall Street Journal commented, "Since employee health problems found by Big Data Analysis are directly linked to employment problems, employers should not be able to see health problems of specific employees" It is.