Employer Health Biosensor Cartoon – Fun Friday

We’re back again with our Fun Friday series of posts A little humor to start off your weekend. Although, we always try to include a simple lesson, insight or perspective with the cartoon as well. This week we tapped into another Dilbert cartoon which highlights the health sensor craze.

The irony of this cartoon is that the reality is the opposite. Most employees think that their employer wants all this data to screw them over (or some other negative thing) and most employers do very little with the data. The most advanced companies are trying to leverage it for lower insurance rates. Not much more from my experience.

I wouldn’t be so generous to employers to say that they do it because they care so much about their employees health either. They do care about their employees health because absent employees hurt business. Plus, unhealthy employees cost employers a lot of money. Too cynical for a Fun Friday? Maybe, but the cartoon is still pretty funny.

Long story short, we have a lot of work to do to make health data tracking something that everyone wants to do.

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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