Munich Re Life U.S. is hoping to overhual U.S. life insurers´ underwriting process.
The New York-based arm of Munich Re has agreed to acquire MedVirginia, which does business as Clareto.
Clareto has developed relationships and systems that help it put health records for hundreds of millions of patients on one easy-to-use system.
Munich Re says it plans to use Clareto technology to give life insurance underwriters quick, easy access to applicants' health records, and to end the days of underwriters having to resort to weeks of postal mail exchanges, telephone calls and even facsimile machine transmissions simply to find out what's up with applicants' health.
MedVirginia, aka Clareto
Clareto is a Richmond, Virginia-based startup that can help life insurers get, and use, coverage applicants' electronic health records.
The firm has relationships with about 25 health information exchange programs and EHR software vendors. In 2021, for example, Clareto said it had negotiated an electronic health record deal that would give it access to the EHR information for about 280 million U.S. patients.
