Sessional Research Event: Hot topics in Health and Care

Healthcare is being transformed by advances in artificial intelligence, virtual reality, machine learning, sensors and other innovative technologies. Practically everybody has a smartphone, making it easier than ever to gather data and consent to third-party access. Unique data insights mean providers can offer people products and services tailored to them individually.

For insurers, digital technology offers new ways to manage risk that relies less on face-to-face and traditional clinical assessment; this is why there is so much interest in understanding how innovation might work.

Speakers:
Adele Groyer and Ross Campbell: Digital technology and disability claims
Gordon Woo: Age-dependence of 1918 pandemic mortality
Tim Eppert: Long Term Care Reform in Germany - At long last