External publications relating to Sanitas

As one of Switzerland’s leading health insurers, we are regularly the focus of interest of various Swiss media. Here you’ll find an overview of key external publications relating to Sanitas.

How to save money on health insurance

Alex Friedl, head of claims and customer service, explains in an interview with Sonntagszeitung why premiums continue to rise. And what action insurers and customers can take to stop this development.

Online doctors: on hand around the clock

Telemedicine has become increasingly important in recent years, not least because of the COVID-19 pandemic. What are the benefits of virtual consultations? And the limitations? Product manager Julie Benachour reports in Glückspost.

We’re committed to combating rising costs

Rising healthcare costs and growing premium invoices: In an interview with the newspaper Inline, CEO Dr Andreas Schönenberger puts the developments in perspective and explains how Sanitas is working to combat them.

Need for more transparency and responsibility

In an interview with HZ Insurance, CEO Dr Andreas Schönenberger explains, among other things, how our digital developments are helping customers to take charge of their health.

Our healthcare system is one of the best in the world”

In an interview with the Sonntagszeitung newspaper, Sanitas foundation board chairman Felix Gutzwiller says that our healthcare system focuses too much on repair – and too little on preventing damage from occurring in the first place.

Reaching customers faster thanks to the cloud.

Mohammad Najm, head of IT Delivery & Technology, explains in Computerworld, why we’ve outsourced our web portals to the cloud. And why this enables us to implement innovations faster and continue to improve the customer experience.

Good cover away from home

In an interview in the HR magazine Penso, Petr Müller, head of partner corporate sales, explains why it’s important to check your health insurance cover before you go abroad.

Our hospital landscape is undergoing radical change

Joachim Eder from the Sanitas board of trustees gives an interview in KPGM’s “Clarity on Healthcare” magazine to discuss various healthcare initiatives, their prospects and potential challenges.

I would like to get projects up and running together with my team

Increasing convenience and customer satisfaction by creating wow moments for the insureds: that’s what her job is about, says Seraina Stöckli, Head of Digital Sales & Sales Development, in a profile by HZ Insurance.

Being successful means growing together

As claims systems product owner at Sanitas, Luca Wittwer values cooperation with a wide range of stakeholders. Find out more in the “Young talents – future leaders” series by HZ Insurance.

It’s important to always keep moving

In the “Young talents – future leaders” series by HZ Insurance, Ratheesha Pararasasingam talks about her position as Claims and Customer Service project manager at Sanitas.

Open the way for electronic benefits data

In an interview in the clinicum magazine, Alex Friedl, head of claims and customer service, explains why it should be possible for benefits data to be transmitted quickly, securely and economically between all players in the healthcare system.

A liberal perspective after the pandemic

In a NZZ guest commentary, Sanitas Foundation Board Chairman Felix Gutzwiller puts forward the opinion that personal health information is playing an increasingly important role − and not just during pandemics.

“Flexibility and courage to try new things”

In an interview with FH Schweiz’s association magazine “Inline”, CEO Dr Andreas Schönenberger describes how he views the pandemic from the perspective of a health insurer (in German).

Step outside your comfort zone

In the Handelszeitung newspaper, Heike Homburger, Head of Service Contracting & Tariffs, explains why she is committed to transparent prices in a sustainable healthcare system (in German).

Our healthcare system is world class

In a major interview with the SonntagsZeitung, CEO Dr Andreas Schönenberger discusses premium reductions, digitalisation, the electronic patient record and regulation in the healthcare industry (in German).

Sanitas addresses a taboo topic

The Planning a Family plan from Sanitas offers coverage for involuntary childlessness. The Handelszeitung newspaper spoke about this with product manager Tiffany Moll (in German).

I’m very optimistic that we will make great strides

In an interview with the Handelszeitung newspaper, CEO Dr Andreas Schönenberger is confident that the digitalisation of the health sector will soon accelerate rapidly as a result the pandemic (in German).

Sanitas Portal App – one app for everything

In the Competence H+ Hospital Forum Elias Frühauf, Head of Operations & Digitalisation, tells all about the new Health Navigator and explains why the app is about more than scanning in documents and checking the deductible (in German).

Sanitas: tug of war between digitalisation, cost pressure and competition

In an interview with the KPMG newspaper Clarity, CEO Dr Andreas Schönenberger talks about how the corona crisis is pushing the healthcare system to its limits and how Sanitas is directly affected (in German).