In the May Bhela meeting, we invite you to follow inputs and participate in the discussion on the relevance of actuarial analysis for health insurances: How can actuarial analysis contribute to policy making and to the long-term financial stability of health insurances? In the context of openIMIS, we will explore the role of health insurance data as a basis for actuarial analysis: both insuree data on utilization of health care services and provider data on health care expenditures. One could argue: No well-founded health policy decisions without actuarial analysis, no actuarial analysis without health insurance data and no health insurance data without health insurance software like openIMIS. We will learn about the current functions of openIMIS related to actuarial analysis and discuss the project experiences from Nepal.

Co-ordinates

Date: 29.05.2024

Time: 10.00 AM Central European Time (CET)

Room: Jitsi Meet - (jitsi claims to support Chrome, Chromium & MS Edge and Firefox browsers only.  You might also want to try the jitsi app)

Participants: (kindly only add yourself, not others):

A short summary on the inputs and subsequent discussion can be found on the openIMIS website (link will be added).

Schedule

When (CEST)	Duration	Who	Topic Slides (PDF) & Link to recording

When (CEST)	Duration	Who	Topic Slides (PDF) & Link to recording
10.00	10 Min	Prof. Dr. Jens Geißler, FOM University, Hamburg / German	Introduction: The connection between health policy making, actuarial analysis, and health insurance software   Open Recording: Prof. Jens Geißler, FOM Hamburg - openIMIS Bhela, Introduction on Actuarial Studies (youtube.com)
10.12	12 Min       12 Min	Purushottam Sapkota, Technical Advisor, Support to the Health Sector Strategy / GIZ Nepal & Pratima Rai, Social Protection Junior Advisor / GIZ Nepal	Current data and functions of openIMIS for data analysis     Project activities on actuarial analysis for HIV in Nepal   Open Recording: Purushottam Sapkota & Pratima Rai, GIZ Nepal - openIMIS Bhela, openIMIS for Actuarial analysis (youtube.com)
10.40	15 Min	Q&A, Discussion
10.55	5 Min	Wrap-up (& follow-up)

A short summary of the discussion for both Bhela instances in May and June 2024 has been published on the openIMIS website: On openIMIS and actuarial analysis | openIMIS.