Sachin Joshi, chief data and analytics engineering officer at Evernorth, recently sat down at VentureBeat Transform 2022 to discuss the ways Cigna is using data science, predictive modeling, and machine learning to improve patient health outcomes, reduce costs, and fix a fragmented health care system.

Scams are rampant in today’s world, in health care and other areas. While anyone of any age can be targeted, older adults are particularly at risk. Last year, fraud cost U.S. seniors more than $1.5 billion. Here is some advice that can help older adults – and younger people, too – protect themselves from scams.

At Cigna Healthcare, our diabetes care solutions are built around a whole-person health strategy. The aim is to help identify, prevent and manage diabetes by connecting individuals to the right level of care. We look at some of the ways our approach has helped patients save money, and improves medication adherence and health outcomes.

Sherry Doble, a claims manager at Cigna, was diagnosed with pre-diabetes, a serious health condition where blood sugars are higher than normal, but not yet high enough to be considered type 2 diabetes. She shares her personal story about enrolling in Omada, Cigna’s diabetes prevention program, and how it changed her life for the better.

At Cigna, we believe that there are four key areas where a health plan can contribute to a business’s growth strategy.

When employers select health plan networks for their employees, they may look at the pure size of a network and assume the more doctors, hospitals, and clinics that are included, the better. However, size alone does not equal quality. The quality of care a patient receives is critical in managing the total cost of care, which includes medical, pharmacy, and behavioral care costs.

Ginger founder Karan Singh sits down with us to talk about mental health and how digital technology has the power to remove barriers to access and bring more personalized care to all.

Cigna has announced an additional $450 million investment in Cigna Ventures, our corporate venture fund focused on finding and partnering with health tech startups as they look to become a catalyst for bold new opportunities to improve people's health and make health care more affordable, simple, and predictable.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light the inextricable link between employee health and well-being, and business and economic success, as evidenced in a recent study by Economist Impact, commissioned by Cigna.

To better understand the virtual care landscape we sat down with Dr. William Lopez, national medical director for virtual care at Evernorth, Cigna Corporation’s health services business. Read on to get some insights around how virtual care will augment and complement the health care experience.