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And the right innovations have the potential to change the way consumers use health care. By putting innovation at the core of our business, we not only improve our services, we also discover a better way of doing things. My role is to ensure we are pursuing innovations for our customers, clients, providers and broker partners. 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It uses Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing techniques to create individual clinical profiles as well as an aggregate view for clients on the overall health of their population.</p> <p>The second project leverages AI and data science to automatically detect fraud. It increases our fraud detection rate and the efficiency of our fraud handlers, contributing to the affordability of our health care plans.</p> <h3>ADDING VALUE FOR PLAN MEMBERS AND HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS</h3> <p>Patients want to be empowered to take more responsibility for their own health and care with self-management tools and shared decision-making. At the same time, they’re more than ever looking for a personalised experience aligned with modern-day living and expectations.</p> <p>Providers, on the other hand, are looking for ways to minimise disruption to patients’ lives by reducing the number of steps in the patient journey. They want better use of available technology to accelerate efficiency when delivering care.</p> <p>By moving from a transactional model to a more technology-driven network model, we believe there’s an enormous potential to delight both patients and providers.</p> <p>t.care is a first step in that direction. We initiated the t.care pilot project after extensive market research in Kenya, Switzerland and the Philippines. Our ambition is to optimise the direct payment experience through simple, cashless and claim-free access to care. t.care will completely re-shape the way health care providers and patients interact with one another.</p> <p><strong>How does t.care work?</strong></p> <p>The t.care app provides estimations of out-of-pocket shares per treatment and per health care provider. Once a provider is chosen, care tickets are generated in the app, confirming the treatment is covered by the plan.</p> <p>By linking a payment method to their account, possible patient shares will be recuperated automatically from the member after the care has been given. This means providers will receive 100% guaranteed payments for the care given.</p> <p>We built t.care as a minimum viable product and launched it in May 2019 to run as a pilot for six months with a small selection of clients and providers. 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