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Wearable Technology in Healthcare

Tom Spencer

Medical device companies are catching on to the financial potential of these devices and are beginning to add medical wearables to their product lines. For example, an insurance company that gains access to a person’s health records could use information about a pre-existing condition to limit the insurance coverage it offers.

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Fool Me Once Or Fool Me All The Time

Martinka Consulting

On June 2, 2018 Jason Zweig’s article in the Wall Street Journal was titled, “ The Fanciful Alphabet Soup Companies Use to Fool You.” Medical insurance expense. Owner “perks” like cell phone, car, travel to conferences, etc. (as Marketing expenses (the marketing didn’t work so it’s really profit). Conclusion.

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3 Kinds of Jobs That Will Thrive as Automation Advances

Harvard Business

Many of us are also becoming more demanding — we are less and less willing to settle for standardized, mass market products when it is far easier to seek out the niche products that are tailored to our specific needs and context. Internet users had almost doubled between 2014 and 2018, reaching almost one third of the user base.

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Helping Remote Workers Avoid Loneliness and Burnout

Harvard Business

It’s a weekday and Jeff, the director of technology at Economical Insurance, kisses his daughter and waves goodbye as she enters the doors of her public school. The 2018 Future Workforce Report by Upwork claims 63% of U.S. For example, be sensitive to employees who travel extensively. Kolbz/Getty Images. Alison Bukholtz.

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New Technologies in the Insurance Landscape (Part 2 – Blockchain)

Tom Spencer

Insurance industry observers, for their part, believe that the innovative distributed ledger could introduce a variety of improvements and efficiencies to the insurance landscape, and have the following four applications: Fraud detection. Peer-to-peer insurance. Peer-to-Peer Insurance. Identity management.