Health and Travel Insurers Will Use AI to Scan Your Body's Vital Signs: Here's Why That's Good
Australian Financial Review
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- Date Published
- 21 June 2025
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- 22 June 2025, 07:12 pm
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An app can take less than a minute to measure your blood pressure and take your heart and respiration rate. But what about data privacy and security?
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The article examines the integration of AI technologies by health and travel insurers to monitor vital body signs, potentially reducing insurance premiums and enhancing risk assessment. While the technological shift presents benefits, such as improved efficiency in health monitoring, it raises concerns about data privacy and security. The broader implications of AI in insurance could influence global practices, highlighting the tension between technological advancement and privacy. The discourse is critical for understanding the balance required in AI policy frameworks to ensure consumer protection while embracing innovation.
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CompaniesFinancial ServicesGeneral insurancePrint articleJun 22, 2025 – 8.00pmSaveLog inorSubscribeto save articleShareCopy linkCopiedEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookCopy linkCopiedShare via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?LoginThe adoption of artificial intelligence may well spur widespread job culling and accelerate the spread of misinformation through the economy. But those risks will hopefully be balanced by the benefits many industries, including healthcare and insurance, will reap.Technological advancements are certainly upending many areas of our lives, and some industries will experience marked change over the next five years. Many – includinginsurance, where most of us have endured hefty premium increases in the past five years– already are.Loading...Joyce Moullakisis an Associate Editor writing across company news, policy issues, investment banking, private equity and financial services.Connect withJoyceonTwitter.EmailJoyceatjoyce.moullakis@nine.com.auSaveLog inorSubscribeto save articleShareCopy linkCopiedEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookCopy linkCopiedShare via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?LoginLicense articleFollow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.Find out moreRead MoreGeneral insuranceAIHealth insuranceSoftwareAppsHealthcareOpinionFetching latest articlesIt’s the coolest chalet in Switzerland – though not for everyoneMatthew DrummondHotel dining used to be bland. Now it’s reinventing room service2 top Melbourne creatives join forces for a new restaurantThe CEO of this $7b company is doubling his workforce – by using AIPatrick DurkinThis executive tripled his salary in 5 years. Here is how he did itHow a banker, coal owner and pokies baron passed the ESG pub testThis Sydney financier dreams of hitting the road with David BeckhamLife & LeisureThis Aston Martin can be tailored to your taste – but it will cost youThis re-released best-selling handbag is now yours for $9450Toorak Rich Listers caught up in mansion fireHannah Wootton‘How very Sydney’: Justin Hemmes forced to unleash charm offensiveBillionaire Geminder mulls asset sales at struggling Pro-Pac business