Data and information management

With 50% of large hospitals having experienced at least one data breach this year, health insurers should keep tabs on how their data is being stored and secured.

Trade associations pen joint letter to Barney Frank asking for an industry exclusion.

Retirement planning fraud will be part of the purview of new, multi-agency unit.

There's been intense debate among insurance tech people lately over what SOA is—or is not—supposed to accomplish. Fortunately, experts at last month's International SOA Symposium have answers.

Insurers should prepare for an expanded focus by regulators on risk mitigation and consumer protection in 2010, say compliance experts.

INN reports from ISOTECH 2009, where Monday’s general session speakers discussed challenges the industry faced in the past and will face in the future.

Will anyone need today’s data a millennium from today? Quite possibly, the answer is yes.

The enterprise IT services survey offers insights into insurers' IT and outsourcing decision-making in North America and Europe.

StoneRiver clients can now take advantage of FICO Blaze Advisor to formulate and maintain many of their own business and processing rules without using specialist IT resources.

Designed to manage claims operations for group employee benefits products, the new system replaces an in-house legacy system.

Holy temblors, Batman, what will the global warming acolytes do with this one?

While legacy architectures may make things easier on IT departments, they don't necessarily ease headaches for users.

HP's acquisition of 3Com will speed the convergence of networking and storage in insurance company data centers.

You know that you don't have an enterprise BI strategy if:

Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, it's impossible to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. A pair of California-based economists probably recognized this following an attempt to construct an “early warning system” to predict another global financial crisis in the wake of the 2008 catastrophe.

Critical to 75% of personal lines P&C carriers, predictive modeling is also becoming a popular pricing tool with commercial lines insurers.

Blue Cross Blue Shield confirms that its laptop containing personal information on healthcare professionals was stolen in Chicago area in August.

Critics contend the failure of Gramm-Leach-Bliley is that it failed to produce a coherent regulatory mechanism that was up to the new powers it created.

A.M. Best, Fitch Ratings and S&P react to Berkshire Hathaway’s acquisition announcement, and announce changes to 14 other insurers’ ratings.

Access and authority can be tricky and risky, but someone—or some thing—has to be in charge. Is automation an option?