Data and information management

Payers have not been engaged in HIE development, despite the fact that their buy-in and active participation is vital to realizing the full benefits industry-wide, study says.

The smaller insurer’s hard work on customer and provider engagement technology has been cited as a key reason for Aetna’s interest and acquisition.

There’s no denying that there are a few exciting use cases of insurers truly leveraging big data, but it’s still extremely limited.

As the two companies consolidate IT, their valuable and voluminous data will revolutionize their risk assessments and customer interactions, industry experts say.

Between now and the effective date of the merger, there will be a lot of planning focused on efficiencies and platform rationalization, cloud, SaaS, data management/stores, analytics and more.

To boost efficiencies and innovation, global insurers are expected to increase IT spend to more than $100 billion in 2015, but how does this forecast translate for the insurance world?

The companies' complementary, rather than competitive, risk management practices can leverage technology to get a clearer picture of risk for insurance carrier clients.

As the FAA has simplified commercial drone licensing requirements, insurers have embraced the technology for claims, underwriting and customer service applications. INN's Senior Editor Chris McMahon reports.

Half of surveyed software developers don't feel they can work with the Internet of Things. Can insurers take the lead?

Experiment, but be careful of expensive, enterprise installations that are hard to extract later, and understand these types of projects can be more transient than other enterprise software.

Summer vacation is a great time to recharge your body -- and your mind. To achieve that latter goal, check out these 15 must-reads, which we culled from the Society for Information Management, plus faculty and administration members from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. Here’s the lineup and a description of each tome.

XL Catlin's newest breach response partners include computer forensics services providers and law firms.

With the Supreme Court affirming that the Affordable Care Act’s current structure won’t change, health insurance IT pros can focus on other pressing areas.

A Novarica survey finds insurers excited about the potential for several big data pools to impact the underwriting process.

Each hurricane season puts CAT models to the test, with potentially billions of dollars riding on the accuracy of these models. The key to developing effective CAT modeled loss estimates is accurate, high-quality data.

Insurance technology vendors with telematics, analytics, and Internet of Things interests are increasingly linking up to provide more robust capabilities for carriers.

Annabell Bexiga joins the company as commercial insurance business information officer, reporting to AIG CIO Phil Fasano.

Health insurance companies are on the verge of a consolidation wave much like the pharmaceutical industry has been experiencing.

Insurance analytics provider and connected-car technology company endeavor to expand insurers’ use of risk scoring.

James J. Shea, a former QBE VP responsible for integrating the Australian insurer’s information technology systems, and Eugene Fallon, an outside consultant, allegedly defrauded QBE over two years.