There are a range of application types that probably should be moved to the cloud simply because they are commoditized, routine functions that are best handled by someone else.

The White House said Thursday that 6 million people have signed up for private health insurance plans through the federal and state marketplaces, hitting the administration’s lowered goal, which was originally 7 million.

Decision could clear hurdles for smaller insurers to enter UBI market, industry experts say.

iWorks is designed to enable insurers to turn raw financial data into analysis for investments, risk and compliance.

IT will be required to develop the robust systems and data environment to perform and analyze risk metrics in tight time frames. There's a regulatory train coming, and IT needs to stay ahead of it.

An examination of case studies point to a handful of paths insurers can take toward innovation.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said that a box is being added to the enrollment process that consumers can click to indicate they started the sign-up process before the March 31 deadline.

Market conduct exams, privacy and data protection rank at the top of insurers' regulatory concerns, according to a recent survey.

Recognition of IT's strategic importance is growing, but so is dissatisfaction with its effectiveness, according to our eighth annual survey on business and technology strategy.

"If consumers are in line on the 31st and can’t finish, we won’t shut the door on them," says U.S. Health and Human Services Department spokeswoman.

The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season, which ran from June through November, was the first since 1994 with no major storms.

Lumeta Corp. has integrated its IPsonar and ESI products with the Allgress' Insight Risk Management Suite.

The partnership will provide insurers with insight into driving records.

The platform now is designed to be a probabilistic loss estimation tool generating exceedence probability curves, probable maximum losses and average annual losses.

Insurer's statement on next year’s rates startled some analysts, while others said the company may be hedging bets as the Obama administration continually changes the rules on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Having established core capabilities last year, chief risk officers now are focused on making core processes and tools work better, according to Ernst & Young survey.

New analysis of off-exchange enrollment data shows percentage of younger people enrolling at eHealth and uninsureds shopping for coverage this quarter are trending up and average premiums trending downward.

Several brokers across the nation pinpointed Blue Cross Blue Shield companies in various states as some of the worst culprits; Blues responds.

By 2020 IoT product and service suppliers will generate incremental revenue exceeding $300 billion.

However, a lack of testing tools and lower-quality assurance resources are holding back mobile website and app developers and IT professionals, according to survey.