Health insurance and artificial intelligence

The digitization of medicine and the IT development favour the use of artificial intelligence [4] in the health sector. Nowadays, some of the latest softwares can, without human intervention, analyse medical imaging and establish a diagnosis.

According to an American study, such a technological advancement might give way to insurance fraud. In a medical diagnosis, every term is meaningful and decisive and the fact that it is determinant for the compensation of medical fees increases the risk of fraud [5].

While waiting for a more precise technology to be developed, the researchers urge the authorities to set up a medical data certification body in order to avoid all confusion.