Insurers can learn from the use of activity tracking in other fields to help their customers make better decisions.

Last week, we discussed the reality that most IT organizations are making well-intentioned investments, but that their investment portfolio may be out of balance. To read last week’s blog,click here.

The temporary program has been called everything from a “subsidy” and “safety valve for consumers and insurers” to a “taxpayer bailout.”

Pro General will use 4Sight's ad-hoc reporting capabilities, predefined data layouts and capabilities around reports and dashboards to have advanced analytical reporting with detail drill downs.

At the top of the list are pricing challenges stemming from complex pricing models and hidden fees.

On the state-based marketplaces consistency results varied, while in the federal marketplaces 2.6 million of 2.9 million inconsistencies went unresolved.

The partnership will enable testing on real devices in the cloud and speed the mobile app time to market, the companies say.

iWorks Prophet GI is designed to help general and P&C insurers manage risk modeling.

The market generated 653.8 petabytes of new storage capacity shipments during the quarter, which was up 72 percent compared with the same period a year ago.

Organizations’ efforts to go digital—and drive growth through digitization—are picking up steam. But many have more work to do before they can scale their efforts and see material impact.

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.