Description: This is a letter from the editor. This issue completes his first year as editor.

Description: This article is about the critical role of actuaries in IT projects.

Description: This article celebrates the tremendous progress that has been made in automating reinsurance data. It also looks at remaining issues, such as a lack of standardization, and challenges presented for the future.

Description: Actuarial Innovation and Technology Topic - Innovation around the Globe

Description: Electronic Health Records, or EHRs, are a major worldwide initiative to eliminate paper recordings – including Attending Physician Statements (APSs) – of an individual’s medical history and current treatment.

Description: Winning essays form the Actuarial Practice Innovation Call for Essays.

Description: Winning essays form the Actuarial Practice Innovation Call for Essays.

Description: Decentralized insurance alternatives is a rapidly expanding sector of Decentralized Finance (DeFi), an emerging and growing financial ecosystem powered by blockchain technologies. The purpose of this report is to review and discuss the business models and operating designs of decentralized insurance alternatives, which may have significant implications for traditional insurance businesses, as well as the actuarial profession.

Description: The COVID-19 pandemic initially caused some health care services to shift away from in-person transactions to a digital form, including telehealth, e-mails, remote patient monitoring and other forms of communication. If sustained, numerous effects and counter-effects both in the cost and quality of care as well as long-term outcomes for patient health may emerge.

Description: This address at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting presents an overview of artificial intelligence and expert systems. An explanation of AI and how it can help an insurance company are discussed.