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In the pandemic, the demand for complementary health insurance increased, and price offers started to be received online. While the personal information that should be provided during the application worries users about data privacy, the insurance comparison platform, Tamamliyo.com, announced that a price quote can be obtained without sharing personal data with the face recognition technology it has developed.

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İSTANBUL (TR) - The fight against the coronavirus since the first months of 2020 has increased health concerns all over the world. As the trend towards health insurances started to increase, the applicants also turned their focus on online application sites. According to the data of the Turkish Insurance Association (TSB), where 1.5 million people take out complementary health insurance every year, online supplementary health insurance demands increased by approximately 50% during the pandemic process. The fact that the online application process requires the sharing of many information such as Turkish ID number, age, gender, city of residence, height and weight on online systems brought along concerns about the privacy of personal data. Acting against this situation, the Turkish insurance comparison platform, Tamamliyo.com, developed face recognition technology for health insurance offers. The application, which stands out as a first in the insurance industry, enables quotes for supplementary health insurance without sharing personal data.

Many health institutions contracted with insurance companies can be reached

In a statement on the subject, Tamamliyo.com Project Manager Metin Öngüç said, “While receiving a health insurance offer, it is necessary to give a lot of personal information. As this situation puts the confidentiality of personal data at risk, we have developed an image processing, in other words face recognition technology, a system of receiving offers. We can use this technology, which we implemented after a 5-month software process with a team of 8 people, and which we launched in January 2021, while offering online complementary health insurance prices of 6 different insurance companies to our customers. In the upcoming period, we will ensure that they receive life insurance and personal accident insurance offers at the same time with a single photo.”

One photo is enough 

Metin Öngüç, who also conveyed details about the operation of the system, said, “Facial recognition system, which provides easy and fast processing, can be accessed from the link www.tamamliyo.com/yuz. People who want to get an offer can get a health insurance price quote by taking photos or uploading photos. Using image processing technology, the system detects the people in the photograph and lists the prices of the contracted insurance companies within seconds accordingly. In addition, insured persons can easily find institutions such as contracted hospitals and pharmacies on the “Contracted Institutions” page on the website.”