Lucien Engelen - Issue #33

On the surface, it makes sense. Healthy people generally cost insurers less, so why not encourage policyholders to live healthfully by doling out perks and discounts, and then track them to make sure they’re sticking to their end of the bargain? This was the logic that spurred one the nation’s largest life insurance providers, John Hancock, to offer massively discounted Apple Watches to customers. But there’s a major hitch: by tracking all that data, policy holders may be giving away a lot more than they realize.

Amazon has proven time and again it has the power to move markets. Following a report yesterday from the St.

There is a monster lurking beneath the insurance companies. For now, it lies dormant, having already been satiated by enormous feasts of industry. But soon it will soon grow hungry again and may turn its voracious appetite and overwhelming puissance on the insurance industry.

The 21st century is going to be a world of artificial intelligence (AI), whether we’re ready for it or not. And we’re probably not, especially not when it comes to health care. https://t.co/wlafKGFK2n

I’m really used to it by now: voice commands to my computer, to my watch, to my car while driving and answering messages and at home. We’re all getting more and more used to voice in our smartphone, in our car and even on our watch and most of all in our homes. Talking to computers is booming (business) meanwhile shifting power in the corporate world as well.

At a recent social impact investing forum, I was asked to expand on the attributes of the regenerative health era that will replace the our current extractive era of healthcare (see article below). I responded that it will be local, open and decentralized. This approach addresses the core problem that the care delivery industry has become an extractive industry: it harms the social determinants of health that drive 80% of health outcomes while producing inconsistent quality.

A company called Zebra Medical Vision (Zebra-Med) has unveiled a new service called Zebra AI1 that uses algorithms to examine your medical scans for a dollar ea…