After more than a year of work, the Health Information Trust Alliance, an industry consortium, on March 2 will unveil its first Common Security Framework.

An industry analyst says state-based regulation is hampering direct-to-consumer distribution.

The group applauds the steps taken by Congress and the Obama Administration to ensure the utilization of electronic health records.

President of agents association says modernization act is “more of the same.”

PHT will have access to security standards, be able to provide feedback on the standards and become part of the 500-organization community.

Legislation says federal insurance regulators will establish physical offices in all states.

Property/casualty association head says systemic risks still not addressed in new legislation.

Sent to the Senate for a final vote, the latest provisions are more liberal than the previous Senate version’s.

Study suggests insurers establish an efficient risk-based compliance culture throughout their enterprise, or risk the consequences.

The impending amendments offer adaptable insurers strategic advantages from the resulting structure, says a Conning Research study.

Seeking to address systemic risk, reps say they will soon introduce legislation to create national insurance regulator.

An organization representing insurers asks the SEC for more inclusiveness and accountability in formulation of new rules.

Proposals within the economic stimulus bill to expand HIPAA privacy rule provisions would have unintended consequences that could impede progress in using health information technology, according to Karen Ignagni, president and CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans in Washington.

A transitional, if not transformational, environment is afoot for the U.S. P&C industry in 2009, says Ernst & Young, but before carriers take steps forward, concerns must be dispatched.

As data and compliance needs change, carriers are looking to automate one of the last bastions of manual processing.

More than just a technology, enterprise content management is a business strategy to successfully drive insurers into the future.

After public hearing, commissioners vote down plans to relax capital and surplus requirements.

As the association holds public hearing to discuss changes to its solvency framework, while critics contend the issue has already been decided.

Prior to last week’s passage of the economic stimulus package that included funds to ramp up health care IT nationwide, individual states had embraced it as a means of reducing medical errors and improving health care quality.

Association frames the debate over regulatory reform in a letter to President Obama.