Healthcare Finance News November 9, 2018
Insurers are using artificial intelligence and machine learning to review medical records, optimize care for chronic conditions, identify risk.
Health insurance companies today are using artificial intelligence and machine learning in ways not possible just five years ago to better pinpoint at-risk individuals and to reduce costs.
“The applicability and opportunity on the insurers side is fantastic,” said Mark Morsch, vice president of Technology for Optum360. “AI has gotten hot in the last few years.
The biggest breakthroughs are in more sophisticated machine learning. Being able to take that data and leverage it to drive algorithms and move towards being more predictive.”
Optum, for instance, is now running a pilot program for insurers to take advantage of AI in processes...