Analytics

By unlocking the value of petabytes of patient-specific data, health insurance plans will be able to help members to achieve their health care goals, says presenter at America’s Health Insurance Plans Institute 2014.

Insurers reveal what technology initiatives are on their horizons and what technological challenges keep them up at night.

Jonathan Kalman, president of Return on Intelligence, offered the following predictions, takeaways and advice at the IASA 2014 Educational Conference and Business Show in Indianapolis last week.

Insurance business and technology experts agree that a successful C-level vision is not just about keeping up with technology; it’s about more focus on the customer and less on caution-drenched decision making.

Advice on some of insurance IT executives' biggest challenges, including data security, cloud computing, and recruiting and retaining talent was offered during a town hall meeting at last week’s IASA conference.

Research suggests many executives lack confidence in the outcome of their data analyses.

While it sounds like a marketing buzzword, data lakes offer an alternative to enterprise data warehouses.

To increase market share and increase relevancy, Accenture says insurers must plan for the blurring between the digital and physical world, the rise of crowdsourcing, the advent of the data supply chain and three other trends.

The application is designed to simplify and automate photo documentation capture and filing.

For insurers, agent demand and claims efficiencies are contributing to a new sense of urgency to embrace mobile apps.