Fierce Healthcare March 9, 2022
Robert King

Humana is working toward using Fitbit devices it has distributed to Medicare Advantage (MA) plan members to help track data on chronic conditions and to encourage healthy behaviors, a top executive said.

The insurer gave out more than 116,000 devices to MA members in December 2020 and is still in the early stages of determining the best use case for the information gleaned from these wearables.

“A big theme in the discussion we had is, we are still in the early stages here,” said William Shrank, M.D., chief medical officer at Humana, in an interview with Fierce Healthcare. “We are still more in the process of learning.”

Shrank gave a presentation on wearable technology...

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Topics: Digital Health, Insurance, Medicare Advantage, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology, Wearables
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