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Legislative moves to squash systemic risk may portend a heavier hand in insurance regulation.

While long ubiquitous in business-to-business transactions, internal use of standards is becoming more prevalent in the era of service-oriented architectures.

Due to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, federal regulators may now require written policies and procedures and periodic compliance reviews.

Physicians offer advice on how to define “meaningful use” of electronic health records.

Solution highlighted by Web-based reporting and analytics platform designed to track risk exposure, compliance violations, financial statements and investment performance.

Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, which provides regulatory intelligence, policy management, and process management products and services to help financial services organizations control and provide oversight to their compliance programs, reports that its insurance compliance products will be available to U.K. insurance companies that conduct business in the United States.

Insurance advisors, agents, brokers and benefit specialists unify voices to caution against bypassing proper deliberation and debate.

News of the approval was met with mixed results from the insurer community.

Insurance IT vendors should readjust their approach to selling solutions in a way that better meets the needs of their customers.

Insurance technology vendors should heed these tips when working with the analyst community.

While Europe's Basel II regulations are still just for banks, insurers should take note and begin to prepare, as many of the changes may likely come to affect them in the near future.

The CORE initiative seeks to build industry consensus on the tightening of the HIPAA standards to streamline health care financial/administrative transactions.

Company says legislation an improvement on past optional federal charter proposals.

A new survey from Aon Consulting reveals that nearly 60% of employers surveyed expect their overall health care costs to rise because of the COBRA subsidy.

The president of the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents contends that there are opportunities hidden in the challenges stemming from the current state of the economy.

Industry conferences shy away from vendor-led sessions.

Penalty and fee hikes, as well as fingerprinting requirements were not included in the final budget passed by lawmakers.