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Health insurers are coming for your data

Personal health data is invaluable to insurers, and they’re getting creative in their quest for it

25/10/18

Salman SH

India’s health insurers are waking up to the data revolution

Data of more than 450 million lives that are currently covered in India is up for grabs

And insurers are getting creative in their attempts to mine this. Fitbits, gym activity, diagnostics results are all fair game

All this data, they hope, will help them price premiums more effectively. But questions about privacy and quality of data abound

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That trendy fitness band. Your last food order from your smartphone. Both innocuous parts of everyday living. But these could soon have a very significant bearing on your life and wallet in a way you may never have imagined—the cost of your health insurance. Yes, in a twist that seems straight out of the Sci-Fi…

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