Humana's LeClaire: The Quantifiable CIO
Brian LeClaire, CIO of health insurance provider Humana, may be the ideal customer for his company. His counts himself among those who value the "quantified self," a segment of the population interested in gathering personal health data and acting on it.
"I've got a Fitbit," said LeClaire in a phone interview, referring to the electronic wristband that records data about its wearer's physical activities. "I wear it. In all candor, I'm addicted to it."
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The wearable device has become part of LeClaire's social world. "My daughter, my two sons, and my wife are all Fitbit wearers," said LeClaire. "We've done that in part because of our focus as a family on health and well-being. We challenge one another. We taunt one another. We talk about the email that comes out every week and who's on top and who isn't."
Fitbit touches on the four areas of technology where Humana is focused: mobile, social, cloud, and analytics. It's part of a broad movement in the technology industry to make mobile technology engaging and meaningful beyond communications.
For Humana, these four areas of technology offer a path toward helping people achieve lifelong well-being. Perhaps not coincidentally, healthy, active people tend to be less costly to insure than the afflicted and indolent.
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Thomas Claburn has been writing about business and technology since 1996, for publications such as New Architect, PC Computing, InformationWeek, Salon, Wired, and Ziff Davis Smart Business. Before that, he worked in film and television, having earned a not particularly useful ... View Full Bio
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