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Could your Fitbit data be used to deny you health insurance?

  • Written by Andrew Boyd, Assistant Professor, Biomedical and Health Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago
imageA log of your preexisting conditions?Timo Newton-Sims/timo_w2s/flickr, CC BY-SA

Wearing a fitness tracking device could earn you cash from your health insurance company. At first, this sounds lucrative for the people who participate, and good for the companies, who want healthier insurance customers. But it’s not quite so simple.

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