Eighty percent of health plan data is unstructured. Text mining can transform it into a format open to analysis.

Half of the financial services firms responding to a recent survey, 17 percent of which were insurance companies, said they have no mobile strategy of any kind.

Sixty-eight percent of respondents feel their companies are actively promoting gender diversity.

The offering is designed to enable clients to get up and running in 30 days or less across cloud and dedicated architectures.

Under the proposal, 95 percent of customers who purchased plans through the federal website will be automatically renewed, unless they seek changes.

Half of the executives surveyed in a new report say their organizations have bring-your-own-device programs, and the growth of BYOD raises questions about how often policies should be updated and communicated to employees.

The formation of an El Niño and cooler than normal sea-surface temperatures in the Atlantic Main Development Region could suppress hurricane formation and severity.

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Illinois, a subsidiary of Health Care Service Corp. and the state’s largest insurer, signed up 92 percent of all 217,500 enrollees between October and mid-April.

Insurers increasingly recognize that cloud services can also codify customer data and foster new business opportunities.

Insurers already immersed in the cloud share their steps to success.

Sam Medina begins a 3-part series on Transforming the IT Investment Budget in order to fund new programs and initiatives without the necessity of additional capital expense.

Life insurance in advanced economies will return to growth this year as sales in the United States reverse a contraction, spurring returns for providers.

Bill recognizes some consumers may need or want to buy health insurance off the exchange without having had a special qualifying event.

The state is considering defaulting to HealthCare.gov, even as it pours millions of dollars into a last-ditch attempt to fix its dysfunctional HIX.

In today's competitive marketplace, insurers must be able to measure what's working and what isn’t with their mobile engagements.

Mobile opens up new avenues of interaction with customers, as well as adding a new dimension to internal operations.

All companies are aware of the growing risk of cyberattacks, yet few are taking the steps necessary to protect critical information. The key? Senior managers need to lead.

This growing combination of real-time data collection from remote sources, wireless connectivity and analytics could affect virtually every aspect of insurance.

The increase in time being spent interacting online via social media channels represents one of the greatest new business opportunities of all time. But for the insurance industry, it may represent one its greatest challenges.

By 2015, most mobile applications will synchronize, collect and analyze deep data about users and their social graphs, according to Gartner Inc.