Topic: Numbers, data and prognoses - How maths shapes private health insurance
Speaker: Dr. Martin Vielitz-Sumi, mathematician, HUK-COBURG health insurance
Time: Friday, June 20, 2025, 3:00 p.m.
Location: TU Ilmenau, Faradaybau (new building), Faradayhörsaal, access and parking from Prof.-Schmidt-Straße
Admission: 5 euros
Mathematics has played a central role in private health insurance since its earliest days. Traditionally, it is used to calculate tariffs, calculate premiums, manage companies and distribute surpluses. The current hype surrounding artificial intelligence and data science has led to numerous new mathematical applications for mathematics in health insurance. On the other hand, data protection and the requirements of supervisory authorities pose new challenges for insurance mathematicians. In his lecture at the TU Ilmenau Bürgercampus, Dr. Martin Vielitz-Sumi, mathematician at the health insurance company HUK-COBURG, will present private health insurance from a mathematician’s perspective. He will explain how it works, how premiums are calculated - and why they are always rising. Finally, he addresses current problems in private health insurance and reflects on the tension between private and statutory health insurance. In 2018, Dr Vielitz-Sumi and two fellow students founded the start-up "ICO-LUX", which specializes in detecting cases of fraud in private health insurance. The mathematician at the Bürgercampus can also explain how to find fraudsters in the health insurance jungle.
Numbers, data and prognoses - How maths shapes private health insurance
