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New Product News - July 8, 2010
July 8, 2010 News about new and recently released products from Oracle and MicroStrategy

An Architectural Tour
July 6, 2010 As technological complexity increases and business processes evolve, insurers need to pay more attention to modern systems...

Big Breach at Anthem Blue Cross
June 28, 2010 Anthem Blue Cross, the trade name for Blue Cross of California, is notifying about 230,000 members and applicants for...

IT Jobs, Salaries Rising
June 16, 2010 There is a compensation increase underway for many IT positions, especially that of CIO, notes survey

BlueWave Makes Splash With PipelineClaims 4.2
June 10, 2010 The release allows insurers to customize workflows and business rules, and have the system automatically execute and monitor...

Data Breach at U-Louisville
June 4, 2010 The university posted a public notice of a data breach in which protected health and financial information from its kidney...

HealthVault: PHRs Still Growing, But is the Industry Even Ready?
June 2, 2010 PHRs are definitely making inroads, but not necessarily in the way Microsoft (or competitor Google Inc.) had hoped

GoogleHealth: Same Story, Different Platform
June 2, 2010 There is a large gap between having data in an electronic health record and being able to exchange it

Insurers Leave Legacy Behind
May 27, 2010 New Celent report says insurers are making slow, but steady progress remaking their core systems

Are You Prepared to Store All This Data?
May 6, 2010 EMC study finds that 1.2 trillion gigabytes of digital information will be created in 2010

The Next Bottleneck in Trading Speed: Software
April 20, 2010 Success in increasingly fast-moving automated markets will be dependent on how efficiently traders’ programmers write the...

Top 10 Technologies Impacting P&C Insurers
April 5, 2010 Gartner lists technologies that will challenge business processes, support new business models and drive revenue growth

Deconstructing Data Quality
March 19, 2010 Insurance consultant Mark Gorman says for carriers quality data should mean more than getting the numbers right on a report

Number Crunching
February 26, 2010 Predictive analytics helps Presbyterian Healthcare analyze financial data

Study Parses CIO Priorities
December 4, 2009 Caught between the seemingly contradictory need to cut costs and innovate, CIOs are betting on technologies such as analytics...

AMFAM Selects Correlsense SharePath System
November 30, 2009 Online insurance quoting system designed to enable end-to-end trace and analysis of transactions to pinpoint problems as they...

Blumenthal: Need to Lift Data Obstacles
November 13, 2009 David Blumenthal, M.D., national coordinator for health information technology, issued the latest in a series of messages...

Shield Pierced
November 12, 2009 The personal financial information of 850,000 health care professionals was compromised when a laptop was stolen in late...

IBM Donates Assets to ACORD to Help Drive Insurance Standards
November 6, 2009 IBM will donate its Insurance Application Architecture, Business Object/Data Model, and the IAA Product Specification Diagram...

Getting Devices to Talk to EHRs
November 4, 2009 Sherman Hospital wanted to integrate patient monitoring devices with its electronic health records system. However, it quickly...

Pragmatism Pays off in North Carolina
November 4, 2009 A Medicaid project in North Carolina is using a dose of technical ingenuity to enable physicians who lack an electronic health...

Avoiding 'Alert Fatigue'
September 30, 2009 'Alert fatigue' is a major concern for hospitals implementing computerized physician order entry systems

IBM Unveils Business Analytics for Mid-sized Clients
September 16, 2009 IBM launched IBM Cognos Express, a business intelligence and planning solution specifically designed and priced for mid-sized...

HL7, ADA Align on Standards
September 4, 2009 Standards development organization Health Level Seven and the American Dental Association will jointly harmonize health...

Assessing Demand for EHRs
August 31, 2009 The Medicare and Medicaid incentives for adopting electronic health records will lead to a gradual build in demand for the...

Keeping Tabs on Tablets
August 28, 2009 In these days of mobile clinical computing, it's not enough to protect the information in the electronic health record

C'mon, Everybody's Doing It
August 14, 2009 Social networking has infiltrated consumers' lives, and insurers are using it to alter brand images

Survey: Risks Now Must Be Managed in Real Time
July 14, 2009 Risk management has become a real-time task, according to 250 asset managers, hedge funds, banks and brokerages surveyed last...

Product Spotlight - June 11, 2009
June 10, 2009 News about new and recently updated products from Information Builders, SAS, Quest Software and more

Breach Data-Sharing Site Started
June 8, 2009 Intersections Inc. and the Identity Theft Assistance Center unveiled a Web site where companies that have suffered a data...

Ten Tech Companies to Watch
May 28, 2009 Everything has changed — as we've heard infinitely of late — and Business Technology News' ten tech companies to...

Product Spotlight - May 28, 2009
May 27, 2009 News about new and recently updated products from VMware, SunGard, Pitney Bowes and more

ONC Issues Operating Plan for HITECH
May 19, 2009 The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology released an plan for implementing provisions of the...

Survey: ICD-10 Can Fuel IT Advances
May 12, 2009 A survey of health insurers shows many view the transition to the ICD-10 code sets as an opportunity to make strategic...

An Onus of Innovation
May 12, 2009 A new survey finds widespread enthusiasm for the benefits realized from innovation, tempered with the reality of tight...

EHR Buyers Beware: Consultant
May 11, 2009 Practices planning to use remotely hosted electronic health records software to qualify for economic stimulus payments must...

Industry Group Eyes Data Portal for RMBS
May 11, 2009 The American Securitization Forum may launch a Web-based data portal to help pay for the creation of unique loan IDs for the...

Speed Trumps 'Virtual' Savings at Credit Suisse
May 6, 2009 While operational and capital savings were the initial drivers behind Credit Suisse's effort to create a virtual...

Fiserv Eyeing Foreign Deals
May 5, 2009 Fiserv Inc. may look outside the United States for its next big acquisition

Reacting to Risk: Firms Adopting CEP for Real-Time Monitoring
May 5, 2009 The financial services industry is increasingly embracing complex event processing technology to speed up risk management

Seeing Everything at Any Time
May 4, 2009 El Camino Hospital will aggregate medical, operational and administrative data in real-time

Exchange Agent
May 1, 2009 Among health information exchanges, Grand Junction, Colo.-based Quality Health Network is a rare bird--it's actually flying

Keep 'Em Coming Back
May 1, 2009 Consumer onboarding's never been more important, or automated

AHIMA: Focus on Results
April 30, 2009 Regulators should focus on improvements in quality, cost and performance when defining what constitutes “meaningful...

Metadata Initiative Drives Efficiencies at BMO Financial
April 29, 2009 Enterprisewide information policy produces operational, compliance benefits

Forrester: Spend on Social Media to Leave Other Channels in the Dust
April 28, 2009 A new era of social commerce is knocking at the door, promising CRM on steroids — and State Farm is one of the first...

ERM Process Trumps Technology
April 27, 2009 Getting a framework in place is the first step to a successful enterprise risk management strategy

Companies’ Green IT Initiatives Largely Fallow
April 24, 2009 Redemtech’s “Sustainable Computing Assessment” finds most companies lack holistic policies for promoting...

CIOs Get a Bigger Voice on Spending
April 24, 2009 The banking industry's upheaval is prompting institutions to revamp decision-making, giving more authority over technology...

Outsourcing: A Profitable But Dangerous Game
April 23, 2009 In what seems like a contradiction in terms, Gartner is forecasting that prices for outsourcing services will decline by a 5...

Avox Partners With Markit on Business Entity Data
April 23, 2009 Avox said today that it is teaming with Markit Group to provide mutual customers with consistent business entity data and...

Re-engineer the Insurance Tech Buyer/Seller Relationship
April 23, 2009 Tech vendors think IT buyers learn about the hottest technology because of the bright, shiny stuff that their marketing...

Hard Truths: SunGard's Rowe on the Failures of Risk Management
April 22, 2009 Technology may be a key component of sound risk management, but it needs to be applied in conjunction with sound judgment...

Insurers Grasp Endpoint Security and Management
April 22, 2009 An Aberdeen Group survey finds 93 percent of companies queried have consistent policies for supported application...

Where’s the Silver Lining in Cloud Computing?
April 22, 2009 Despite being hailed by many as a cure-all solution for insurers, cloud computing needs to be carefully examined before...

Raymond James Installs IDC Market Data Platform
April 21, 2009 Raymond James Financial implemented Interactive Data Corp.’s hosted market data platform in its private client group

Obama Names Tech, Performance Aides
April 21, 2009 President Obama has named Aneesh Chopra as chief technology officer for the administration, and Jeffrey Zients as chief...

Credit Suisse, Turquoise Tap New Interparty Latency Measurement Tool
April 21, 2009 Corvil announced that Credit Suisse and pan-European trading platform Turquoise are using CorvilClear

FISD and FPL Team on Data Standards Development
April 20, 2009 FIX Protocol Ltd. and the Software & Information Industry Association's financial information services division are working...

Basel II May Be Replaced Before It's Fully in Force
April 20, 2009 With implementation barely begun in the United States, the international capital rule is already considered out of date

In Crisis, NYSE's IT Offerings Appeal to New Customers
April 20, 2009 Commercial technology unit built on solid foundation, says NYSE Technologies CEO

Forget Virtualization, Try Compression
April 20, 2009 Virtualization will drive Wall Street demand for Intel Corp.'s next-generation Xeon 5500 processors, according to Intel's...

Is Cloud Computing the New SOA?
April 17, 2009 It is especially important for vendors who offer cloud-computing products to be educators, not just providers

An Alternative to an EHR
April 17, 2009 Amidst all the hoopla about electronic health records, Ken Beasley is sticking to his guns

Tervela, Volante Partner on Integration Technology
April 15, 2009 Tervela rolled out a platform that combines its Open Data Framework with a data integration application from Volante Technology

Build SOA Along the ‘Mutual’ Model
April 15, 2009 Let me help debunk three of the most vexing myths that have been shattering peoples’ illusions about SOA

JP Morgan Rides Risk Focus Through Rocky Markets
April 14, 2009 In the case of JP Morgan, risk management technologies and procedures helped the bank maintain a position of strength...

BNP Speeds Risk Calculations With Hardware Acceleration
April 14, 2009 BNP Paribas, moving to bolster its computational power, implemented a new technology platform designed to accelerate...

Tech Mahindra Wins Satyam Bid
April 14, 2009 Pune-based Tech Mahindra Ltd. won a bidding war for control of scandal-ridden Satyam Computer Services Ltd

VA, DOD to Build 'Virtual' EHR
April 14, 2009 President Obama has announced the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs will create a joint 'virtual' electronic health...

RIAs Deliver Agility
April 13, 2009 Rich Internet applications offer insurers expanded opportunities to interact with customers, brokers and agents

Narrowing The Focus
April 13, 2009 While the economic downturn is not causing wholesale changes in IT budgets, it is shifting spending toward projects that can...

Choosing CRM Sides
April 13, 2009 To add to the complexity of CRM, CIOs in the insurance industry are being asked to decide between on-premise or on-demand...

Shopping at the Data Mart
April 10, 2009 The Department of Defense Military Health System's electronic health record, now sports a clinical data repository of some 50...

Business/IT Misalignment: Whose Responsibility?
April 10, 2009 Ask just about anyone about the decades-long misalignment between business and IT in most companies, and you’ll get a...

Insurance Tech Vendors Need to Simplify Cloud
April 9, 2009 North American insurance carriers spend about 70 percent of their software budgets on the care and feeding of their core...

It’s the Economy, Smarty: Why Industry IT Spending Remains Stable
April 8, 2009 It looks like IT spending within the industry will get through the current downturn relatively unscathed

Actuaries Should Explore Non-traditional Approaches to Predictive Analysis
April 8, 2009 Property/casualty insurance actuaries should not be afraid to try alternative approaches to data mining as part of the...

People's Is Green All Over
April 7, 2009 Going green has become an enterprise-wide philosophy at People's Bank. From loans, to strategic IT plan, to employee...

CEP Provider Aleri Rolls Out Risk Monitoring Framework
April 7, 2009 Complex event processing technology provider Aleri introduced a risk monitoring framework designed to manage market and...

Portal Serves Cancer Survivors
April 7, 2009 Moffitt Cancer Center is phasing in a patient portal that strives to provide personalized medicine fueled by a robust data...

Data Centers Go on a Power Diet
April 6, 2009 Server virtualization can reduce data center footprints, reduce energy use and cut overall expense by getting more...

The Team Approach to IT Building
April 6, 2009 For many big IT projects these days, a cross-functional team representing various departments plans and oversees the efforts....

Debate Continues on Hospital EHRs
April 6, 2009 Two-thirds of U.S. hospitals have made significant progress toward implementing comprehensive electronic health records, HIMSS...

Is Electronic Content Out of Control?
April 6, 2009 This new era of technology and means of communication is making life difficult for organizations trying to get their hands...

Transactional Transparency a Delicate Balancing Act
April 6, 2009 Will greater disclosure of customer data make the financial services industry more stable at the cost of privacy breaches?

Mayo, IBM Open their NLP Technology
April 3, 2009 The Mayo Clinic and IBM Corp. placed their clinical natural language processing technologies into the public domain, making...

Cost Cutting Is The New Black
April 3, 2009 The global recession and ailing banks force financial services CIOs to focus on cost cutting, especially IT spending

Greenberg Defends Record at AIG, Raps Bailout
April 3, 2009 Greenberg seeks to deflect criticisms that the company had a lax approach to risk management

Some Sun During a Rainy Year
April 2, 2009 Nobody's job is totally safe, but architecture, project management, IT security and networking jobs have more armor than most

Data Center Spending Reached $1.8 Billion in 2008
April 2, 2009 Capital markets firms spent $1.8 billion on data center space, power and cooling last year, according to a new report from...

Coping With IT's Light Bill Not Easy
April 2, 2009 Going green, no doubt, is very difficult for health care organizations. Green electricity sources are still in their infancy

Survival Skills
April 1, 2009 Thousands of bank IT employees are losing their jobs as rivals merge and everyone else slashes headcount. But as Umpqua Bank's...

5 Ways Enterprise Computing is Changing for the Better (Plus 2 More on the Way)
April 1, 2009 These are just some of the trends shaping enterprise computing within the insurance industry

Consumerism’s Impact on IT
April 1, 2009 The rise of consumerism is leading many health care organizations to rethink their IT strategies

Technology Will Lead Industry Into New Compliance Era, Says Finra Exec
March 31, 2009 Despite cutbacks across the industry, technology will play an increasingly important role in compliance under a revamped...

RFID to Track Cleveland Clinic's Records
March 31, 2009 Cleveland Clinic will implement health information management software that uses radio frequency identification technology to...

Good Luck With That
March 31, 2009 Without a standardized data-driven reporting system, the newly created regulator of systemic risk faces the same challenges...

Don't Stop Now: Maintaining IT Innovation Will Secure the Future
March 30, 2009 Preserving capital at all costs is the rule of the day - or likely the year - as banks cut IT projects. But sacrificing on...

Lending Clarity from the Cloud
March 30, 2009 Cloud computing's being deployed as a less expensive, loan automation enabler for Landmark and Community First banks

Assessing Business Intelligence
March 27, 2009 Is business intelligence passé? This is not exactly a question one would expect to hear posed aloud at gathering convened...

Report: Comprehensive EHRs Are Rare
March 27, 2009 Only 1.5 percent of U.S. hospitals have a comprehensive electronic records system implemented across all their major clinical...

Top Community Bank IT Initiatives
March 27, 2009 Saving time and money were big drivers of community bank IT spending last year, as many of the country's smallest banks got...

Who Owns Electronic Medical Data?
March 27, 2009 As the volume of electronic medical information increases, the issue of who owns the electronic data must be clarified,...

CIOs Say CRM No. 2 Tech Priority in 2009
March 25, 2009 Maintaining an effective customer relationship management (CRM) system is top-of-mind for many CIOs

ERM Technology Up to the Task?
March 25, 2009 Can certain technologies hurt or help business processes, and is technology worth the investment right now?

SS&C Acquires Data Transformation Specialist
March 25, 2009 SS&C Technologies, a front- to back-office software provider, acquired data transformation company Evare for an undisclosed sum

Oracle Expands Life Sciences Reach
March 25, 2009 Oracle Corp. will acquire Relsys International Inc., a vendor of safety data analytics software for the life sciences industry

BlackRock Getting Platform Ready for CDS Sector Revamp
March 23, 2009 The asset manager BlackRock Inc. is updating its technology platform and derivatives operations in anticipation of a newly...

Templates Aid Nurse Documentation
March 23, 2009 Information technology services and consulting firm Computer Sciences Corp. and the Association of periOperative Registered...

CME Using Corvil for Latency Management
March 20, 2009 CME Group is using technology from Dublin-based Corvil to monitor and manage latency in its trading and market data...

Kaiser to Outsource Some IT to IBM
March 20, 2009 Kaiser Permanente will outsource much of its information technology operations to IBM Corp. in a deal that will cut 700 IT jobs

Broadridge, Oracle Team on Hosted Compliance Platform
March 20, 2009 Broadridge Financial Solutions has announced plans to offer a hosted version of Oracle Corp.’s Mantas Behavior Detection...

The Pros and Cons of External Project Management
March 19, 2009 Every IT resource is finite. This is especially true of the human capital in an insurer’s data center

Johns Hopkins Adopts Surgical Dashboard
March 18, 2009 The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore will implement a surgical dashboard from LiveData Inc

Kundra Back on the Job
March 18, 2009 After a five-day leave of absence during which time the FBI raided his former offices, Vivek Kundra was cleared of any...

GAO: Internet Remains at Risk
March 18, 2009 Six years after President Bush called for a national strategy to secure the nation's information infrastructure, the task is...

Sybase Builds CEP Into Analytics Platform
March 17, 2009 Sybase added complex event processing (CEP) capabilities to its market analytics platform

Kaiser Permanente Dishes Keys to Implementing Health Care IT
March 14, 2009 Two new studies from the insurer show how a comprehensive technology infrastructure can improve efficiency and patient...

BGC Signs With Apama for Algorithmic Trading
March 14, 2009 Interdealer broker BGC plans to use complex event processing technology from Apama for algorithmic execution in the...

Bank of America Outs Twitter Twit
March 12, 2009 An incident sheds light on one possible risk of using social networking as a CRM tool

Want to Serve on Standards, Policy Panels?
March 12, 2009 The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is seeking nominations to the HIT Standards Committee...

IT Budgets and Staffing Most Affected By Crisis
March 11, 2009 Staffing and IT budgets have been hit the hardest by the financial crisis, according to a poll of the membership of the...

Unemployed IT Pros Turning to Insurance Industry?
March 10, 2009 This economic crisis is inordinately rough for IT professionals in the insurance industry and beyond

The Language of Risk
March 10, 2009 There's little question the financial industry needs a way to accurately gauge, predict and price operational, market, credit...

Heartland's Lonely Quest For Reform
March 10, 2009 Heartland Payment Systems CEO Robert Carr has likened his company's massive data breach to the Tylenol moment when product...

IBM Front-Runner to Buy Satyam
March 9, 2009 Satyam Computer Services Ltd. won approval from The Securities and Exchange Board of India to sell a 51 percent stake in the...

Comparing U.S., Canada IT Efforts
March 9, 2009 Sierra Systems released a brief report comparing the national health care IT initiatives of Canada and the United States. The...

Aleri and Coral8 Combine in Complex Event Processing Consolidation
March 9, 2009 Aleri and Coral8 Combine in Complex Event Processing Consolidation

Now's Not a Time to Hide
March 6, 2009 Marcus Ryu argues that the insurance industry's unique characteristics suggest that strategic IT investments have never been...

Reforging IT Contracts
March 6, 2009 Many insurers, trimming budgets and staff and squeezing another year or two out of still-effective legacy systems, are...

Insurers Scale the Many Steps to Paperless
March 5, 2009 Completely paperless processes may not always be possible, but many insurers are inching toward eliminating paper with each...

Green Screens Fade Out in Workers' Comp
March 5, 2009 There are many reasons legacy billing systems persist. Many of these systems were shackled to a particular book of business,...

Cost-Cutting Hits Market Data Management, Says Survey
March 4, 2009 Faced with shrinking budgets, buy- and sell-side firms around the world are struggling to keep pace with rising market data...

XBRL Risk Reporting Initiative Moving Forward
March 3, 2009 The IBM Data Governance Council asked for financial industry assistance in creating an XBRL taxonomy for risk reporting by...

Tools to Standardize Security Launched
March 3, 2009 The Health Information Trust Alliance, an industry consortium, unveiled its Common Security Framework for electronic health...

Cape Girardeau Docs Pick MED3000
March 2, 2009 Saint Francis Medical Center is implementing remotely hosted practice management and revenue cycle management/reporting...

The Emperor's Old Clothes Still Don't Fit
February 27, 2009 With the potential to be the new poster child for data breach notoriety, Heartland Payment Systems of New Jersey responded...

Study: Governments Should Step Up Risk Management Efforts
February 27, 2009 In today’s interdependent societies, it can be unclear where one risk ends and another begins, and that individual events...

Obama: Health Reform Starts Now
February 26, 2009 A major effort to reform America's health care system starts next week, President Obama told the nation. And that's on top of...

Unibased Tackles Order Capture
February 26, 2009 Hospital ancillary software vendor Unibased Systems Architecture Inc. introduced a Web-based physician order capture and...

Gartner: IT Spending to Grow 2.6 Percent
February 25, 2009 The U.S. health care industry will increase spending on information technology by 2.6 percent to $28.4 billion in 2009

Spotlight on Servers
February 24, 2009 Many devote little effort to selecting a server when rolling out a new system. But Stu Patty says that taking the time to make...

Feet to the Fire
February 24, 2009 Software helps a hospital track insurers' compliance with their own contracts

Insurer Group Builds Best Security Practices
February 23, 2009 After more than a year of work, the Health Information Trust Alliance will unveil its first Common Security Framework

Ancillary, Clinical Vendors Align
February 23, 2009 Unibased Systems Architecture Inc. will integrate its ForSite2020 suite with the MetaVision hospital clinical information...

BearingPoint Files For Bankruptcy
February 23, 2009 The firm, which began as the consulting arm of KPMG, took on debt through acquisitions following its 2001 initial public...

Researchers: Why Use Aggregators?
February 20, 2009 The pros and cons of using an aggregator

ANSI Tackles Standards for Research
February 19, 2009 One standards development organization wants to insure the standards also support clinical research and decision support...

CIGNA Latest to Fund Database
February 19, 2009 Since UnitedHealth Group struck an agreement with New York Attorney General Cuomo to resolve class-action lawsuits, two Tier 1...

Feds Work on PHR Clarification
February 19, 2009 The federal government is developing a standard template for vendors to describe their personal health record products in an...

Insurers Join Forces to Create CAT Company
February 19, 2009 A group of insurers and brokers created PERILS A.G., a company that will provide the European marketplace with aggregated...

Asset Control, Avox Team on Counterparty Data
February 17, 2009 Asset Control expanded its reach in the counterparty data business by integrating business entity information from Avox into...

OCC Will Operate U.S. Symbol Reservation System
February 17, 2009 A group of options and equities exchanges selected the Options Clearing Corp. to operate a new U.S. symbol reservation system

Hidden Riches Revealed
February 17, 2009 As financial pressures mount, some insurers are killing major IT initiatives. But some health care insurers are deploying...

New PHR Requirements in Stimulus Bill
February 17, 2009 Provisions in the economic stimulus bill, impose new consumer protection requirements on vendors of personal health records

IAOP Names Top 100 Outsourcers
February 17, 2009 IAOP recognized Accenture, IBM and Infosys, respectively, as the top three companies on its Global Outsourcing 100 list

Hidden Gems of the IT Spending Bill
February 16, 2009 Out of the $2 billion in 'jump-start' funding for health IT that is in the economic stimulus bill, $300 million is dedicated...

Hospital, GE to Tackle Patient Flow
February 13, 2009 Healthcare experts in Lean Six Sigma process management will work with hospital staff to identify patient flow problems and...

GRC Managers: Compliance Resource Shortfall Critical
February 13, 2009 GRC managers from a broad range of market segments say that growth in mandates has led to a resource shortfall they...

European Insurers Looking to Retrench with Technology
February 12, 2009 Despite a natural inclination to constrain spending in recessionary times, insurers need to bear in the mind the long-term...

HHS Enhances Privacy Web Site
February 12, 2009 The Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights has revamped its health information privacy Web site

UMass to Create Longitudinal Record
February 11, 2009 UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester will use integration technology from dbMotion Ltd. to create a longitudinal patient...

Oracle Adds Tools for Basel II ICAAP Requirements
February 11, 2009 Oracle Corp.’s financial services unit introduced two offerings designed to help institutions comply with the internal...

Wealth, BI are Still Priorities in '09
February 10, 2009 Barbara Perino and Mark Gim, Rhode Island-based Washington Trust, discuss their IT spending plan for 2009

Clearing ECM's Name
February 10, 2009 Enterprise content management emerges as more than just a technology - it is better defined as a business strategy

Revised Bill Retains Most IT Funds
February 9, 2009 The compromise reached in the U.S. Senate February 6 retains most of the funding that was originally proposed for health IT...

Time to Retire Retro Reconciliation Tools?
February 9, 2009 Despite being one of the most fundamental business processes, reconciliation retains a relatively low-tech reputation

Emergency Healer
February 9, 2009 Trained in emergency medicine, the chief medical informatics officer at HealthEast Care System knows stress. So when he...

Survey: More than 50 Percent of Agents Use Real-Time Tools
February 9, 2009 A survey of 3,200 insurance agency staff members shows that agents will take advantage of real-time functionality

Senator: Don't Strip IT From Bill
February 6, 2009 Senator Sheldon spoke on the Senate floor amid rumors of support for an amendment to strip health IT funding from the economic...

What's Driving IT Spend?
February 6, 2009 A recent survey of IT leaders at P&C carriers indicated the most important technologies were SOA/service integration

Derivatives Group Offers JPM System
February 6, 2009 JPMorgan Chase & Co. is providing its analytical system for credit default swaps to the International Swaps and Derivatives...

Obama: IT to Stay in Stimulus Bill
February 5, 2009 It was a tiny reference, but President Obama mentioned stimulus bill health IT funding provisions as non-negotiable during an...

App Puts PHRs on Cell Phones
February 5, 2009 Anvita Health introduced software to view Google Health personal health records on cell phones that use the Android operating...

Survey: Practices Like Stimulus Bill
February 4, 2009 A survey of physician group practices finds strong support for the health IT in the economic stimulus bill

AHIMA Calls for Data Stewardship
February 4, 2009 The American Health Information Management Association is calling for establishment of a National Health Data Stewardship...

Start-Up RNA Introduces Memory-Pooling Technology
February 3, 2009 RNA Networks emerged from stealth mode with a memory virtualization system designed to minimize data center costs while...

IT Funds Remain in Stimulus Bills
February 3, 2009 The economic stimulus bill as passed by the House contains no major changes in its health IT and privacy provisions

SOA is DOA in the C-Suite
February 3, 2009 It’s a bad time to advocate SOA, never mind the irony that businesses could benefit greatly from its use

Thomson Reuters Upgrades Consolidated European Feed
January 30, 2009 Thomson Reuters launched an enhanced data feed for pan-European securities as it seeks to meet the demands of traders...

"Going Green" More than a CSR play
January 30, 2009 Green IT is not just another IT buzzword or trend that grabs attention then fades just in time for the next big thing

Satyam Scandal Spurs IT Bill of Rights
January 29, 2009 In the shadows of Satyam Computer Services’ growing ethics and accounting scandal, one of its competitors has drafted an...

EDM Council Creates Semantics Repository
January 29, 2009 The repository will be used as a data dictionary for internal mapping within financial institutions, a standard language for...

"Biggest Breach Ever," Now What?
January 29, 2009 The Heartland Breach, like others before it, raises serious questions about exactly what PCI Compliance stands for

Drive Profit From Process
January 29, 2009 Manual process is still rampant. To improve profitability, there are several innovative technologies to help insurers overcome...

Aggregation Sites Adding Unwanted-Fee Finders
January 28, 2009 Sites are developing services that parse vast storehouses of their users' bank account data to manage fraud and reduce risk

What Obama's CTO Heralds
January 28, 2009 The new post might be a leading force in advancing cross-industry safe-computing and data security standards

IM Everywhere
January 27, 2009 Instant message monitoring is not just to catch employees, it's to deter them

Driving Business Results with Technology in 2009
January 27, 2009 The vast amount of data gathered by institutions is often still housed in silos, blocking an enterprise view of consumer,...

Insurers on Watch as Satyam Scrambles
January 26, 2009 Insurer questions continue over India-based Satyam’s viability

Insurers, Financial Services Face Same Game, New Rules
January 26, 2009 SourceMedia editors pool their predictions for 2009 and beyond. Survival amidst extraordinary competition will determine the...