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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.

After a year making and implementing difficult IT decisions, insurers are focused on getting back to delivery in 2010.

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.

In spite of some changes to the core operations of its sponsor, the 2009 ISOTech Business Conference ended in Orlando today with a homogeneous approach, offering education and networking opportunities, as well as several new product announcements.

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.

Aon, Marsh and Willis agree to support endorsement exchange based on ACORD standards.

Agent recruitment up; life sales sees best nine-month start on record

With the acquisition, Infosys BPO will enter the business platform services market for the insurance and financial services sector.

The new model introduces additional hybrid wholesalers in order to ensure advisors have access to all solutions, including annuities, mutual funds and guaranteed income products.

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.

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and U.S. News Media Group released the fifth annual edition of America's Best Health Insurance Plans on USNews.com. Published at the start of open-enrollment season, when Americans nationwide prepare to select their health coverage, the 2009-10 Best Health Insurance Plans guide provides consumers with comprehensive rankings and important detailed information for over 600 commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid health plans.

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

Producers’ status affects unique preferences, and shapes business plans, notes Mintel Compermedia.

What would it look like if Apple's “I'm-a-Mac” commercials were elevated to the enterprise level?

Program administrators and managing general agents are interested in growing through acquisition—in other PAs/MGAs and carriers, according to a recent survey.