Blockchain

Dynamic pricing is an example of an emerging blockchain-enabled innovation that benefits both the insurer and the customer, with broad-ranging potential.

Dogan Kaleli, leader of the program business, finds opportunities to pilot various emerging techs in his role and beyond.

The network also includes three other insurers — Aetna, Anthem and the Chicago-based Health Care Service Corporation.

Augmented analytics, continuous intelligence, data fabric and persistent memory servers are among the top trends that will drive advanced analytics adoption, says Gartner.

As is the case with any emerging technology, there are several risks with blockchain that should be considered by organizations that plan to use it.

Blockchain use fundamentally changes the way that different constituencies -- including insurers and departments of insurance -- interact.

Insurers will work with IBM and other health stakeholders to improve data sharing and payment processing.

Organizations will be looking to hire a range of IT professionals, with skills related to data management among the most desired.

Focusing on data-sharing, APIs and blockchain, ACORD and partner L&T Infotech will work to develop options for insurers.

Pilot project aims to increase efficiency in working with other carriers.

Carrier-side venture partner Martha Notaras shares her ideas on what's in store for the insurtech sector next year.

Aetna has signed on to the Synaptic Health Alliance, a group started by Humana and four other insurers earlier this year and which is also adding hospitals.

The problem comes when hackers use authorized additions to the blockchain as cover to disguise and attach malware aimed at attacking the blockchain from within.

New offering leverages distributed-ledger technology to speed up insurance verification.

Digital innovation will soon outpace the ability of many organizations to keep up, and have dramatic impacts on artificial intelligence and related skills, cultural advancement and processes becoming products, says Gartner.

A quarter of commercial insurers are now leveraging AI, and other new entrants are picking up steam as well.

Automation, biometrics, blockchain and quantum computing will be among the technologies having the greatest impact on business opportunities, says a new report from CompTIA.

Questions like processes to know the customer, appropriate security, and reliable counterparties must still be answered.

Mortality Monitor aims to help insurers comply with regulations around comparing policyholder data to the Social Security Death Master File.

Executive says his role is to partially to be a digital evangelist and make a compelling case for transformative solutions.