Hi everyone. Welcome to the A6 and Z podcast. I'm Sonal and this is our sixth episode of 16

minutes, our new news show, where we cover recent headlines of the week, The A6 and Z way,

why they're in the news, why they matter from our vantage point in tech, and share our experts

views on the trends involved as well. You can catch up on past episodes at A6NZ.com

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favorite podcast player app. This week we have two episodes since we'll be skipping next week.

This episode covers two other topics that came up recently. The Capital One breach, is it more

of the same or different? How does it fit into the seemingly endless string of corporate hacks?

But first, we dive deeper into recent news around health care claims data and insurance providers,

which sounds boring, but is apparently not.

Okay, so the first segment is on recent news that a number of big tech companies,

including Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft are working with insurance companies

in order to help provide claims data to patients. And this came about at a developer conference

hosted by a coalition called this Karen Alliance, which is basically a bipartisan multi-sector

collaborative. That's what they call themselves. And it includes a lot of former national

health coordinators, the U.S.'s first national health coordinators, the U.S.

first health information technologies are, the U.S.'s first CTO, the former Secretary of Health

and Human Services, and a number of other people are working in this alliance. But the key

point of this, and just to summarize the news before I introduce our A6 and Z expert, is it's

the first time that health care providers are giving claims data to

third-party developers. So just to summarize also some of the stats around claims data,

so apparently there are 4 billion prescription claims and 3 billion medical claims

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