3 Trillion Reasons Against Change By Dave Chase With 3 trillion reasons ($$) to protect the status quo, it should be no surprise that employing frontal assault on healthcare would be laughably ineffective.
A Caribbean Hospital: Healthcare's Solution? By Brian Klepper The ability to deliver low cost and high quality is rooted in a relentless drive to rethink and execute pragmatic approaches.
7 Reasons Why Health Premiums Are So High By John Hawthorne Wait, you mean that when the insurance companies and the government teamed up for Obamacare, they actually made some mistakes?
Can Apps Manage Mental Health? By Ross Campbell Smartphone apps are perfect for, say, detecting depression by watching for a fall in exercise and movement and fewer social interactions.
How Many Steps Mean Longer Life? By Ross Campbell Recent evidence suggests activity tracking brings no immediate measurable health benefit, but this misses the point -- and an opportunity.
Hard Lessons on Protecting Health Data By Cynthia Marcotte Stamer A recent settlement highlights compliance weaknesses existing in the operations of many HIPAA covered entities and business associates.
Healthcare Buyers Need Clearer Choices By Michael Levin Over the past decade, many industries have made tremendous progress when it comes to offering consumer choice. Healthcare has not.
How You Sleep Matters to Insurers By Ross Campbell The data could be valuable to life and health insurers because the amount and quality of sleep provide insights into our long-term health.
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.
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.