OMG the crazy on these comments...
This article says that Apple is scaling back an internal program to track employee health. This was a division inside the Health team. That's it. That's all it says. Apple's scaling back the staffing of this.
Comments:
Apple has stopped innovating
- How does an internal health tracking program relate to innovation?
Employees don't want to be tracked
- Thousands of companies use health-tracking tools to provide discounts on health insurance and other benefits. And nothing in the article says that Apple was
requiring participation in this.
I won't use any device that has information that can be used against me!
- Sent from my iPhone which is currently at 37.322998, -122.032182
Strange to see Apple getting out of Health considering Fitbit was bought by Google
- Did you read the article? The Health division has hundreds of people, and this was an internal project.
It's probably because of the issues reported with Apple's internal health clinic data
- Okay this one probably IS related, as it's actually sourced by the commenter, and backed up in a secondary source.
https://www.patentlyapple.com/paten...re-service-plan-by-noting-that-its-strug.html
Apple wants to make a cut of the insurance fees for Apple-watch initiated claims, and send people to their selected doctors.
- Based on...........? Pretty sure that Apple would rather just make money on the watches than wade into healthcare management. But if the company had a way to make insurance less crazy, more affordable, or easier to get a good doctor, and what it took is me to opt into a program to do so, then personally I'm in.
Tim got headlines for launching this, now it's all business.
- This is an internal project at Apple. It's called HealthHabit. Go google that and find me any references to the launch of this internal project.
Employees don't want their employers tracking their health data.
- You're kidding right? Our health care policies are provided by our employers. They have no more access to my paper records than they do the data on my watch. An employee opt-in health monitoring program, of which there are many, doesn't share the data with your employer. It's shared with your healthcare insurer, who already knows absolutely all about your health data.