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Satisfaction highest among 'Loyal Advice Seekers;' Auto-Owners, State Farm and The Hartford lead the pack, J.D. Power says.

Most had been without coverage for at least two years and 72 percent decided to buy health insurance because of the Affordable Care Act, according to Kaiser Family Foundation.

The new world of metadata is like the old world of metadata except that it has many more data sources – and just like data from packaged software, the business has no control over the data definitions of the new sources.

The applications will be deployed using the company’s SaaS platform.

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.

Fifty-six percent of health insurers responding to the survey said they will use a single-carrier private HIX as a sales channel for their products before year's end.

Global risks remain and insurers still need government backstop, according to Guy Carpenter; reform bill raises trigger for attacks.

A year after the policy began, 31 percent of those 19 to 25 told federal researchers they were in excellent physical health, compared with 27 percent on average from 2002 to 2009.

To overcome challenges, the team set up a war room, permanently staffed by representatives of all entities involved with Healthcare.gov, for real-time decision making.

Despite the challenges, Sebelius said she would rather have a rocky rollout and 8 million signed up than a fully functional website and 4 million enrolled.

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.

The project included the migration of thousands of policies, representing more than five years of transactional data, to MS SQL.

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.

According to the NICB, California leads the nation in SUV and CUV thefts; Ford Escape is the most stolen.

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.

While insurers have spent years and millions of dollars acquiring or replacing information systems, there is a lack alignment between companies’ business and IT organizations, according to a panel at America’s Health Insurance Plans Institute.

Insurers are trying to reverse negative public perceptions that they are only looking out for their own financial bottom lines, says trade association.

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

Accenture says enrollments now are three times greater than estimated last year at this time.