Data and information management

The insurance company that paid $4.125 million for Cottage Health System to settle a class action lawsuit following a large data breach now wants its money back.

The P&C insurer is using Sapiens Reinsurance to increase the efficiency of its reinsurance business and related processes and improve data accessibility.

Using data, we have “the opportunity to transform our health care system in unprecedented ways,” the DHS secretary said at the Health Datapalooza conference in Washington.

In the second part of this exclusive interview, Alyssa Pei, partner at A.T. Kearney, discusses emerging technology, privacy and regulatory concerns, as well as the gaps between insurers, regulators and consumers.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will make its data available to the private sector for the first time, the agency's acting administrator announced Tuesday in Washington.

Company's IT operations currently under auspices of interim CIO Gerald Shields, former CIO of Aflac.

For insurers, third-party data presents new opportunities, but regulators need to catch up, says Alyssa Pei, partner at A.T. Kearney.

Mike Clancy will lead technology efforts around claims processing and customer experience for the company.

IoT-platform and data-analytics vendors will collaborate on home, auto and health applications.

For insurance companies that crave the cost structure and flexibility of the cloud, but fear security risks, private cloud models are enticing.

Insurers are using data on customer habits to analyze risks and set prices; records also could be valuable to advertisers who want to know where potential customers travel and what hours they’re on the road.

The professional services firm intends to offer data and analytics products and services to customers and deliver 100 data and analytics jobs to Dublin, Ireland.

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American Family Insurance has several initiatives around big data, including programs for more intensive testing and efforts to leverage unstructured data from claims notes, says Justin Cruz, strategic data and analytics VP.

The Nationwide Center for Advanced Customer Insights (NCACI), at Ohio State University gives students in advanced degree programs the ability to work with real-world data.

Business owners demand faster service, and that's where big data comes in, says Gina Papush, chief data and analytics officer.

Zurich sees predictive analytics as a critical capability and has been accelerating investments in the technology.

Allstate has always had a lot of data, but chief data officer Floyd Yager says the company now is using big data to be more customer-centric.

Among its many data-oriented initiatives, CNA is applying big data technology to workers compensation claims and adjusters' notes.