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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread worldwide, we are seeing healthcare delivery disrupted in unprecedented ways as public health authorities implement measures to limit close contact, movement, and travel. ˿����ƵAPP's Dr. Steve Woh surveys the landscape, from&nbs...

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Could claims evolution be the right response to today's revolutionary change? ˿����ƵAPP's Marilda Kotze identifies three simultaneous evolutions – across regulation, evidence gathering, and client engagement – that insurers should consider.  Read More

Does the COVID-19 pandemic represent the perfect storm for cancer patients? Not only are many sufferers at increased risk of severe consequences from the virus, but the spread of COVID-19 has also reduced access to screening and care, observes ˿����ƵAPP's Hilary Henly. She...

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At a recent EMEA webinar, “Changing Consumer Behavior and Digital Distribution in the COVID-19 World,” Jonathan Hughes and Anthony Miller presented insights about how consumers’ behavior is evolving amid COVID-19 in the short and long term: What are their major conce...

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Why do some COVID-19 patients experience critically low blood-oxygen readings? Why has mechanical ventilation been of varying benefit? ˿����ƵAPP's Heather Lund explores these and other pertinent questions surrounding COVID-19-associated coagulation abnormalities. Insights sha... Read More

˿����ƵAPP's Dr. John Lefebre draws on the words of Sir Winston Churchill when contemplating the likelihood of a second wave of COVID-19: “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps the end of the beginning”. What should insurers know?&...

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Digital health behavior change applications are abundant, but low engagement statistics suggest they often don’t meaningfully respond to consumers’ motivations. It's easy for designers to see users’ long-term health needs while staying blind to the short-term motivat...

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No one has been untouched by COVID-19. Forced isolation and fear of infection can leave profound social — and psychological — scars. ˿����ƵAPP's Dr. Newman Harris explores the social and emotional dislocations caused by the pandemic and offers practical considerations for cla... Read More

As broad-based community testing for COVID-19 grows, understanding and interpreting results will be essential, yet many still struggle to distinguish between test types. ˿����ƵAPP offers a guide and has updated its 

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History exposes how disingenuous marketing and fake research can mislead the public for decades. ˿����ƵAPP's Imran Lorgat explores the history of tobacco marketing and offers lessons for life and health insurers.  

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In January of 2020, new graduates could look forward to a thriving job market; Then came COVID-19. Today, the global economy and job market are hardly recognizable, yet the insurance industry still needs bright and energetic professionals, perhaps now more than ever. RG... Read More

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Insurers are striving to better understand COVID-19-related mortality experience across age, underlying chronic health conditions, and gender – and yet finding and analyzing credible data has proven to be a daunting task.  

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As the COVID-19 pandemic began to sweep across the world, reports of "panic buying" life insurance appeared in the media. ˿����ƵAPP's Matt Battersby reviews the available data in Insurance Thought Leadership to determine i...

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The emerging data on COVID-19 is incomplete and often contradictory, yet a growing body of evidence suggests comorbidities have a strong influence on risk stratification, both from the perspective of disease development, as well as early perspectives of long-term compli... Read More

Three leaders from ˿����ƵAPP share their views from different, yet integrated, perspectives to help insurers make sense of the evolving global pandemic. Read More

˿����ƵAPP's Alan Hobbs explores how COVID-19 has created “little cheating” opportunities in the insurance application process that can eventually lead to a large economic impact for insurers. 

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