Description: This article explores the disruptive applications of blockchain, an emerging technology, and its impact on the pharmacy benefit space, and pharmacy benefit managers (PBM).

Description: Editorial for the October 2019 issue of CompAct describing the issue's contents.

Description: Cognitive tests used in the long-term care insurance industry differ in cognitive domains tested, time required for testing, ease of test administration, sensitivity and specificity. Recently, new approaches to scoring or testing have improved test utility for screening for cognitive impairment.

Description: Perhaps readers will send us additions to the following short list of events in the mathematical world associated with years ending in the digits 82. These are taken from IBM’s history chart, “Men of Modern Mathematics.”

Description: Members of the American Academy of Actuaries’ Solvency Committee have put together an acronym reference chart. This handy guide can be folded up to fit in your wallet and quickly reviewed so you can fearlessly enter an elevator.

Description: The winner of the “most unique use of technology” prize of the 14th Speculative (and Inspiring) Fiction Contest.

Description: The author offers tips for e-mail etiquette.

Description: The predictive analytics application growth in the Asia-Pacific region has been gaining momentum.

Description: Editor’s Corner Technology Improves Our Lives

Description: Guidelines for producing visual communications, or slides, in a time before personal computers were generally available to actuaries for development of documents.