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I thought that Watson, the super computer besting both Ken Jennings and Brett Butler on Jeopardy, may have only been a bright spot for television ratings. But as it turns out, the artificial intelligence computer system developed by IBM also temps as a data cruncher. Its newest assignment: analyzing health insurance data. Watson is just [...]

Growing up my mother always said “prevention is better than cure.” This sentiment made me think twice before jumping over my neighbor’s barbed wire fence to pick fruit with my friends. These days, as we face steadily rising healthcare costs, insurers and employers are turning to prevention. The approach not only fosters mindfulness, it also [...]

Some providers are going the extra mile to make the health insurance industry more transparent and more consumer friendly by opening physical retail outlets. The PBS News Hour / “The Rundown” blog reports: “Health insurers increasingly want to make shopping for a new health plan as easy and convenient as dropping into a local retailer [...]

A health savings account (HSA) and a qualified high deductible health plan (QHDHP) combo, that is. As more and more people are discovering, the HSA + QHDHP combination is one of the best options for facing rising healthcare costs. As a recent article in Desert News puts it, “consumers who use this solution have an [...]