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Higher enrollment should benefit WellPoint Inc., Humana Inc. and other managed-care insurers that rely on a large and diverse patient-mix to balance out the costs of coverage.

“We were the most disrespected brand name on the planet and now we have come back,” says Chairman Steve Miller.

Our critical next step is to enlarge and enrich the conversation and broaden it to encompass business impacts, leadership issues and succession planning for the insurance sector to ensure the future leadership and impact of this aging industry.

New business unit consolidates recently acquired Extend Health, Liazon and others to help employers deliver health benefits to employees, company says.

Strategy Meets Action Founder Deb Smallwood discusses the current landscape of mobile technologies, opportunities and challenges that come with it and action items for insurers.Throughout January, Smallwood details each of SMAs five next-generation technologies — analytics and big data, mobile technologies, collaboration technologies, cloud computing and telematics.To find out how the research and consulting firm came to these five, click here. Watch next-gen technology No. 1: Analytics and Big DataCheck back next week for next-gen technology No. 3: Collaboration.

The sale, which is scheduled to be completed in the second quarter, includes six locations in West Virginia and offices in Ohio, Idaho and Alaska.

Confirmit Acquires Integrasco: Acquisition to bring technologies for capturing social insights, analyzing unstructured text.

We have to shed legacy thinking in order to start thinking transformatively. Legacy thinking is not just about legacy systems; it is also about processes and people. (For a good definition of legacy thinking, see last week's blog .) How you think about the roles of people inside and outside your organization can lead you toward or away from organizational transformation.

Uncertainty over the enrollees in individual products through the exchanges and the unclear impact of the industry assessment tax are key factors in the change.

Upgrade Studio is designed to accelerate the planning and execution of large data migrations and offer customized metrics and reports, company says.