Although employee health data, as well as information on doctor and hospital care, will be key to sizing up the risk inherent in a corporate population, an information gap still exists, said Mangan. "I can get more data on buying a Honda Accord than I can on the doctor that I'm going to visit," he quipped, adding that a cottage industry of health-care information providers is already starting to emerge.
Indeed, as is the case with most corporate issues, information is king, the panelists agreed. "If you don't have data about your own population, you could make some pretty serious mistakes," warned Grossi.
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