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Employers employ big data companies to predict employee health

  

Open VPS : Some enterprises are more and more worried about the rising medical and health costs of employees, and they begin to seek help from big data companies such as Castlight or Welltok.

According to the Wall Street Journal, global well-known companies such as Wal Mart and JPMorgan Chase began to dig big data to track the health of employees. Through cooperation with health data companies such as Castlight or Welltok, they collect and integrate employee data to help employees find healthier lifestyles and lower cost services.

Under certain conditions, employees who are defined as at risk may receive an email from the employer, which is sent by the agent of the data company, including nursing skills, doctors' suggestions, treatment plans, etc.

With the help of big data services such as Castlight, companies can find out who may be at risk of diabetes or heart disease and treat them early. Castlight claims that this not only reduces the medical expenses of employers, but also keeps employees healthy.

Jonathan Rende, the chief R&D officer of Castlight, also said that the latest product of Castlight can even judge the possibility of an employee's pregnancy, and send the woman information about prenatal care based on these data. It is conceivable that the supervisor of the company will also be able to do a good job of job assignment in advance to avoid too much work pressure on pregnant women.

In fact, in today's fully digital health care industry, more and more countries are trying to use big data to promote the development of the health care industry, and there have been many new attempts in China.

According to Shenzhen Evening News, a company in Shenzhen named Zhongruiqi is forming a "peace of mind on cloud" alliance with Alibaba Cloud, the largest cloud computing service provider in China.

Wang Yuansi, CEO of China Ricci, said that in China, people's awareness of heart disease is extremely low, but it is also a very serious disease that is difficult to diagnose at any time. Every year, a large number of patients sleep in their dreams. By wearing intelligent wearable devices and relying on the power of cloud computing big data, 24-hour monitoring of the heart can be achieved.

To participate in a marathon, you need to pay special attention to the heart condition in real time. In the Xiamen International Marathon in January this year, "Forrest Gump Running" cooperated with Alibaba Cloud to launch the exercise rhythm monitoring solution "Run at ease" for horse runners. Through real-time scanning and collection of human life data by intelligent devices, health risk early warning can be made in time to avoid sudden death due to exercise.

Not long ago, IBM invested 2.6 billion dollars to acquire Truven Health Analytics, a provider of healthcare data and analysis, proving that medical big data is no longer empty talk. It is foreseeable that big data will become a new tool to reduce disease risk in the future.