New Litigation Support Website
Keais Records Service Inc., a Houston-based litigation support company specializing in records retrieval services, is launching a new website and furthering its electronic capabilities to serve the litigation discovery needs of major law firms, insurance companies, corporations and TPAs.
The new website, includes a secure online portal that gives clients full access to their records, order status and account information, and is fully compliant with the protected health information privacy requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, Keais says.
In the wake of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health passed in 2009 and this year's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act health reform bill, the company says clients will have a great need to access and evaluate electronic medical records used in litigation.
Keais says the new site is capable of handling the retrieval, analysis and organizing of the full spectrum of medical records, including medical and billing files, pathology reports, pharmacy records, radiology and x-ray reports, workers compensation and insurance claims files and r elated data.
Aon Benfield to Launch App for Reinsurers
Aon Benfield, a reinsurance intermediary and unit of Chicago-based Aon Corp., is set to launch an application for its proprietary facultative placement platform, FAConnect.
Launched in late-2009, FAConnect was designed to allow ceding companies to directly connect with reinsurance markets, enabling them to quote and bind their facultative risk placements in under five minutes. The platform, which the company says currently accommodates 13 product lines, still can be accessed from any Internet-enabled device. The new app is intended to enable clients and markets to trade away from a desktop or laptop computer.
Aon Benfield says the app will be available shortly in Apple's App Store for use across a range of Apple products, including the iPod touch, iPad and iPhone, and in BlackBerry's App World. The launching of the app promises to widen the distribution channel for FAConnect and increase its potential user base, as well as provide enhanced access for FAConnect's 350 current users.
Silanis Offers Cloud-Based E-Signing
Silanis Technology Inc., a Montreal-based provider of electronic signature solutions, has introduced a new cloud-based, e-signature service for the insurance industry.
E-Sign Dedicated Service for Insurance combines Silanis' electronic signature enterprise platform with Web templates designed to "increase adoption and retention," according to the company. Silanis says the product differs from the traditional Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model because it allows customization to a company's business requirements rather than a "one size fits all" approach.
Silanis' E-Sign Dedicated Service is designed to provide rapid integration with insurance and document systems. Carriers, brokers and direct marketers can get to market within 30 days with a solution optimized for their unique business process and branding requirements, while limiting the cost to the actual usage by agents and customers, the company says.
Silanis adds that transactions can be recorded and secured using digital signature technology, and can be reproduced from start to finish, including actions taken in reviewing and signing the documents. All e-signed documents are distributed in PDF format, and secured through digital signature encryption to meet ISO standards for long term archival and security.
RNA, Mellanox Create Cloud Service
RNA Networks Inc., a Mountain View, Calif.-based virtual memory provider, has partnered with Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Mellanox Technologies Ltd., a connectivity solutions provider for data center servers and storage systems, to demonstrate advancements in memory virtualization.
The partnership will combine RNA's MVX 2.5 with Mellanox ConnectX-2 40Gb/s InfiniBand adapter to create a memory cloud, a technology that consolidates memory across multiple servers into a single memory service.
The cloud service is designed to extend server memory and speed up storage for performance improvements of up to 12 times in virtualized environments, according to the companies.
