Amazon launches e-health clinic for its Seattle employees
The pilot program, called Amazon Care, provides a mobile app that enables workers to access virtual and in-person healthcare services
Mobile technology
Benefits Think Digital at work: Wearables in workers’ comp
Research points to automation, robotics and advances in safety as contributing factors to a decrease in claims frequency. However, severity is up — and wearables could help.
Laura Kersey
NCCI
Benefits Think Shopping for benefits: What technology holds for employers and employees
By getting more information in front of workers, benefit managers can help them make smarter decisions and select the best options.
Mike Lisa
Corporate Synergies
Benefits Think Digital at work: Wearables in workers’ comp
Research points to automation, robotics and advances in safety as contributing factors to a decrease in claims frequency. However, severity is up — and wearables could help.
Laura Kersey
NCCI
12 ways health plans are ramping up IT use
Digital approaches such as analytics, artificial intelligence and smart phone apps aim to improve care and save money.
Are employees lying about their daily step count? This tech can help clients tell
FIX Health’s new tool aims to weed out cheaters in its zombie-themed walking challenge, the Outbreak.
Are your employees lying about their daily step count? This tech can tell
FIX Health’s new tool aims to weed out cheaters in its zombie-themed walking challenge, the Outbreak.
Inside AIG’s wearables pilot
Company executives discussed deployment of Kinetic wearable device at Dig | In.
Benefits Think Digitization: Reducing costs, improving health
The potential solutions will require employees to share a large amount of personal data. As a result, trust and safety concerns are inevitable.
Chris Bruce
Thomsons Online Benefits
Fitbit offers new wearables to UnitedHealthcare participants
Employees in the insurer's fitness program can earn more than $1,000 per year by meeting daily walking goals.
Resumes, jobs, benefit and tax forms, drug testing ‘will be 100% automated,’ says WorldatWork CEO
Chatbots are coming and “every single organization today would be wise to begin thinking and acting on the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” he says.
Resumes, jobs, benefit and tax forms, drug testing ‘will be 100% automated,’ says WorldatWork CEO
HR chatbots are coming and “every single organization today would be wise to begin thinking and acting on the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” he says.
Workers are going mobile. Their access to analytics needs to follow
The business world is increasingly mobile, and if organizations don’t provide easy access to data analytics capabilities for mobile users, they might be missing out on huge opportunities.
Employers turning to tech to better manage chronic conditions
Boeing, Delta Air Lines and UMass Memorial say virtual care tools, like Livongo and Vida Health, have had a positive effect on their employees.
The HR tech disconnect: Are there too many digital tools?
The majority of human resources departments use more than five platforms to perform basic tasks at work, new survey data finds.
The HR tech disconnect: Are there too many digital tools?
The majority of human resources departments use more than five platforms to perform basic tasks at work, new survey data finds.
Benefitfocus adds AI capabilities to benefits platform
The company updated its tool to include a new artificial intelligence engine and mobile application.
Fitbit expands offerings to new employers, health plans
The company expanded a partnership with Solera Health, and says Adobe and Domino’s Pizza are now offering its business devices to employees.
HR software platform BerniePortal adds new services, broker partners
The HR software company has added Indeed, MetLife, UnitedHealthcare, Paycor, Proliant and InfoArmor to its platform.
Benefits Think How to make on-demand fitness work for wellness
Virtual fitness is forecast to be a $2.6 billion industry by 2022 — and a growing trend in workplace wellness plans.
Jason Von Bank
Wellbeats