The Implications of Genetic Testing in Employee Wellness
Personalized Medicine has been a buzzword for over a decade. Now more than ever, people are understanding that preventative care informed by your genetics is a large part of truly personalizing healthcare. In fact in a recent study by Aetna it was shown that wellness programs that included genetic testing for overall health, delivered positive clinical outcomes for 76% of participants and significantly reduced healthcare costs. Employers are seeing positive implications of offering their employees simple, easy-to-take genetic tests that help them better understand their nutrition, diet, exercise and metabolic factors so they can make proa