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Independence Blue Cross is alerting nearly 17,000 members after an employee put protected health information on to a public-facing website.

The program provides ongoing digital support to prevent the onset of the chronic condition.

Investment focus areas will include analytics, digital health, as well as care delivery and management.

The consumerization of healthcare establishes an environment where shopping for insurance should be similar to an online retail experience.

Health insurers are joining the ranks of providers and vendors adopting HL7’s emerging Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard for sharing information.

Jack Stoddard, a longtime healthcare executive, has been named as COO of the healthcare initiative.

Studio H in Boston will be staffed by as many as 250 employees to develop new products and services.

The goal is to avoid traditional time-consuming tasks of communicating via fax, mail, email, courier and web portals, while reducing costs and speeding processes.

Progress toward a value-based care reimbursement system is slow, with clinicians hampered by a lack of information technology that could help them, according to a new survey of healthcare executives.

The move could reignite speculation that the two companies will forge a closer partnership.

While the move proposed for 2020 mostly affects P&C lines, the insurer’s extensive benefits portfolio remains intact.

The company's fully digital policy acquisition process helps increase its reach in an elusive sector.

Responses should demonstrate how similar customers solved the same business challenges in a hosted environment.

Combining claims and clinical data provides better understanding of health ‘in real time,’ says data director Colt Courtright.

Selection of Atul Gawande, MD, to lead the new healthcare firm will advance innovation and change, says AHIP’s Matt Eyles.

Atul Gawande, MD, who has written extensively about the U.S. failure to grapple with healthcare spending, will lead the new initiative.

Bradley Bodell has also worked at MetLife in various technology roles.

Several insurers in Maryland and Virginia are seeking double-digit percentage increases in monthly costs for individual medical plans in 2019.

Insurance companies are finally putting a price on the risk of distracted driving, and it’s relatively cheap.

The NAIC's three-year plan to adopt emerging technologies and a newly announced focus on distracted driving are sure to catch carriers' eyes.