Description: 2022 Welcome and Strategic Themes for the Marketing and Distribution Section Council.

Description: This session discussion is about medical technology: trends and proliferation of medical technology, its impact, future, employer strategies to limit exposure, considerations of containing utilization of various procedures and technology. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

Description: Welcome to the future of insurance, for actuaries and non-actuaries! Discover how cutting-edge AI models are revolutionizing underwriting, risk assessment, and customer experience for the insurance industry. Experts in management consulting and actuarial consulting firms will provide valuable insights into the consideration and challenges surrounding the adoption of Generative AI.

Description: This paper outlines how derivation of many balance sheet items can be improved both at the year end and at interim shipment dates by a company which utilizes data processing equipment. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1958, Vol. 10, No. 28.

Description: Phil Gold reviews the effect of the competency framework on various stages of inception and development of the AXIS Actuarial System.

Description: Learn more about interpretable machine learning techniques for health insurance fraud detection.

Description: This article describes the Actuarial Research Clearinghouse [ARCH] CD-ROM Project whereby the highlights of each Actuarial Research Conference [ARC] presentation are videotaped and then digitized and recorded on a CD-ROM. This disk is then used to develop a computer-based, user-friendly, multimedia summary of the highlights of ARC.

Description: This session series is sponsored by Zelis Shifting utilization of health services to efficient and high-value providers presents an opportunity to reduce harmful cascades of wasteful spending, ultimately freeing up funds for additional high-value services that will improve quality and member satisfaction. Identifying the right providers to put at the center of networks is challenging for any health care organization. How can you objectively determine which providers are delivering the greatest value when compared to their peers? And once those providers are identified, what’s next? Join Zelis and their partner HealthCorum to review a case study on a shared services organization where they leveraged statewide multi-payer claims data to produce provider level analytics, allowing for transparency into provider practice patterns at a granular level. By attending this session, you will be able to: - Create a fair methodology to benchmark providers. - Develop metrics and scores to identify high-value providers. - Produce actionable data to be used for network optimization strategies.

Description: Big data, predictive analytics, machine learning and AI will likely transform the insurance market and the actuarial profession. The actuarial profession is seeing changes many markets, including health and property and casualty. This article describes these trends and provides an introduction into what companies and the Society of Actuaries (SOA) are doing to adapt and capitalize on these trends.

Description: This article looks at our use of technology- then and now. A reprinted article from the very first Pension Section News in June 1989, written by Barbara Choyke and titled '1,100 View SOA’s First Teleconference,' is juxtaposed against a view of today’s webcast communications.