Wearable technology

New research highlights the evolving role of the insurance industry from reimbursements to incentivizing to reduce risk and prevent losses altogether.

In other news: Liberty Mutual launches insurance agency; Neptune Flood releases carbon-neutral plan; New York Life announces CEO-elect.

Globally, 72% of respondents said they would share some personal data with their insurer but when broken down by gender, only 68% of women and 75% of men said they would share.

Amazon Halo John Hancock Vitality integration to launch

Commercial insurance companies and employers want to understand the current pandemic and how to mitigate the risk of future shocks.

A new program at Purdue University aims to improve health outcomes by applying real-time physiological data from wearable sensors.

Humana is entering a partnership with platform and health data solutions provider Validic that will boost connectivity between members’ tech devices and the health plan.

The opacity of data-analysis tools can make it difficult for workers to fully understand how much employers can see.

The most important customer isn’t necessarily the consumer. It’s the insurer or the government

NCCI research points to automation, robotics, and continued advances in safety as contributing factors to a decrease in claims frequency. However, severity is up -- and wearables could help.

Company executives discussed deployment of Kinetic wearable device at Dig | In.

Arrangement makes the wearables-focused insurtech a subsidiary of the TPA service provider and provides a roadmap for insurtechs and vendors to work together.

The bank will follow the same concept as Vitality, which rewards clients who eat healthy and exercise with discounts on flights, gym and meal.

App focuses on healthy habits with insurance coverage increasing with each reported improvement.

Carriers will begin leveraging data for more personalized products based on customers' 'digital demographics,' says Accenture.

This combination ensures accuracy over time and enables the ability to analyze information and provide it quickly.

Digital Insurance catches up with some insurance market share leaders to identify the digital initiatives that are components of their success.

For healthcare payers, the answer depends on more than just saving money—optimizing health should be the basis for adoption.

Recently minted VP of product innovation Abel Travis outlines carrier’s approach to integrating insurtechs.

As sci-fi author William Gibson said, the future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed.