Blockchain

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.