Healthcare Inflation Numbers Are Wrong By Chris Burand Understanding the true inflation of medical care will help the intelligent, educated producer sell and advise the educated and intelligent buyer.
A Workplace Wellness Skeptic Lets Loose By Al Lewis Even if you were to reduce 100% of [wellness-sensitive medical events] you could not pay for most wellness programs.|
Key Tech for Life, Annuity in 2020 By Vinod Kachroo The key is to view what may seem to be common buzzwords not only as trends, but also as technologies and concepts that will push the industry forward.|
How Much Exercise Prolongs Healthy Life? By Ross Campbell Wearables and self-reported data can provide Personalized Activity Intelligence (PAI), which measures cardiorespiratory fitness.
Securing Your Internet of (Medical) Things By Alexander Golubovich Healthcare institutions and legislators are working hard to catch up on security practices, yet many facilities remain drastically behind the curve.
How to Link Heart Health to Insurance By Ross Campbell Life and critical illness products protect policyholders from financial loss but until now have helped little on safeguarding customers’ health.
Walmart May Redefine Primary Care By Brian Klepper The health outcomes improvements and savings associated with only using high-performing physicians should be profound.
Americans Perplexed on Health Insurance By Nick DiUlio A survey finds that 62% of Americans favor a hybrid, public/private approach to health insurance--but many are confused.
Auto Insurance in an Existential Crisis By Stephen Applebaum Alan Demers The 125-year-old, $300 billion U.S. auto insurance industry is caught between runaway inflation and strained consumer wallets.
The Promise of Continuous Underwriting By Bill Deemer Bobby Touran Typically, a risk is underwritten, bound... and forgotten. But new streams of data and automation allow for continuous underwriting.
Convergence and the Insurance Ecosystem By Stephen Applebaum Alan Demers Companies must anticipate the future, innovate beyond their core and transform their capabilities as rapidly as technology allows.
Lemonade's 'Synthetic Agent' Nonsense By Matteo Carbone Desperate for growth, Lemonade produces another howler: A lender receiving a 16% interest rate is presented as a (synthetic) agent.