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.

The group now has 30 insurance carrier members working on distributed-ledger tech solutions for the industry.

The American Association of Insurance Services will launch the openIDL to share data between carriers and regulators.

Startup companies targeting the insurance sector are seeing more investment, but not to the level of the biggest deals in other financial sectors.

Progress toward a value-based care reimbursement system is slow, with clinicians hampered by a lack of information technology that could help them, according to a new survey of healthcare executives.

The distributed-ledger technology promises to streamline processes like claim management, pricing transparency and actuarial management.

Choices of Corda for distributed-ledger technology and Accenture for security and integration layers gets proofs of concept closer to production.

Insurers should identify priorities, assessing where they are and how blockchain would get them there and prioritize possible use cases, says Boston Consulting Group.

It is relatively inexpensive for insurers to try out the technologies -- and not risk falling behind.

Telematics, blockchain and RPA are all on the menu at the Worcester, Mass.-based multiline insurer.

Recently deployed capabilities find use cases for the technology in auto and marine coverage.