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Insurance Provider Cuts Costs and Boosts Productivity With Messaging Solution

D.A.S. Osterr. Allg. Rechtsschutz-Versicherungs A.G. (D.A.S. Austria) is a liability insurance provider that processes 40,000 cases annually. The company had outgrown its nearly obsolete IT infrastructure comprised of the Microsoft Windows NT Server operating system version 4.0, Novell Netware servers, and a third-party mail solution with no collaboration functionality. The...

Tags: Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Austria, Liability Insurance, Microsoft Windows, Groupware, Insurance, Collaboration, E-mail Servers, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Hardware

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Life insurance may prove difficult to get if you contract H1N1

Insurance company business model:Only sell insurance to those who will not need it and hence not collect.For life insurance, they at least have a case, because it should not be possible to take out a $1M policy the day before you die of cancer.Health CARE however is supposed to be...

Tags: Financial Planning, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Personal finance, payroll solutions, H1N1 flu, insurance, life insurance, health insurance, health care

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Cutting imaging proves a win-win-win

Ionizing Radiation Is Very Dangerousand must be employed very, very carefully.If it's not absolutely necessary, [u]don't[/u].Anyone familiar with nuclear physics, engineering, or medicine knows that it only takes one ionizing radiation event to damage one single cell's DNA such that the cell becomes malignantly cancerous to start a life-threatening illness.Any...

Tags: Document management, Vertical industries, win-win-win, imaging, health care, patient

Discussion threads 2009-08-27

Placing blame for the XTent failure

Science, Research, and Data Are Not To Blamefor these rest on the scientific method. Instead, other social factors are to blame:The irresponsibility of our public media in chronically sensationalizing news for the sake of entertaining rather than informing the public;The caution practicing physicians must exercise to avoid liability in...

Tags: comparative effectiveness, Paxil, XTent, stent

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

Top 5 reasons healthcare in America is broken

Top 5 reasons healthcare in America is brokenMy top 5whats wrong with the current health care reform bill:1. Illegal aliens are not excluded2. Congressmen are excluded (remember all the rhetoric about every American deserving the same health coverage that they get?) Do as I say not as I do.3. It...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Food & Beverage, Illegal Aliens, health care, diabetes, Top 5 reasons healthcare, food

Discussion threads 2009-07-16

Should doctors go on strike?

Should doctors go on strike?Big government is the cause... of crazy medical expense. We need less regulation so there's less room for the insurance company and lawyer manipulation that jacks the medical cost. Obama's more government involvement is the wrong solution.No, life, liberty and the pursuit of happinessare fundamental human...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Medical Care, Obama, Big Government, health care, medical care, HIPPA

Discussion threads 2009-07-09

Open source shrugs at EU liability plans

Lawyers and insurance companies have been dealing with liability issues for centuries. I'm sure they'll say that if your customer sees what they have gotten, and can fix what they have gotten, you've got better legal defenses than when they haven't and can't. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Insurance, Financial Planning, Open Source, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-05-13

EC wants software makers held liable for code

EC wants software makers held liable for code ABOUT TIME!!!!This goes for everyone...Only in software can you find a known defect and then have to pay for the "upgrade" to fix the bug.Many states do this sort of thing with insurance companies every so oftenEither they'll require certain coverage and...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Insurance, software, software company

Discussion threads 2009-05-11

Company Leads Netherlands Online Insurance Industry With Intuitive Web Site

Established in 2007, Ditzo is a direct insurance company targeting retail customers in the Netherlands. It offers car, home buildings and contents, liability, and travel insurance. Ditzo wanted a Web site to convert visitors into customers by helping them simply obtain and modify an insurance quote online with automated calculating...

Tags: Web, Netherlands, Microsoft Corp., Web Site, Insurance, Web Site Development, Financial Planning, Web Technology, Channel Management, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Internet, Finance, Marketing

Case studies 2009-04-01

Should health IT be immune from suits

Should health IT be immune from suitsIf they take the money they get the responsibilityIt's basically that simple. :)RE: Should health IT be immune from suits"Think health IT vendors should be subject to the full market discipline of civil courts, as doctors and still drug companies are? Or would...

Tags: Benefits, health-IT, insurance company, insurance, software

Discussion threads 2009-03-25

Greening Effect for USA Waterways

The largest underwriter of pollution liability insurance for marine vessels in the United States has undertaken a 'Green' initiative that will create a smaller technology footprint. The Water Quality Insurance Syndicate WQIS, a provider of water pollution liability insurance for over 40,000 vessels operating in U.S. waters or traveling in...

Tags: U.S., Network Infrastructure, Network, Pollution, Vessel, EMC Corp., Network Infrastructure Technologies, Network Administration, Storage, Servers, Networking, Hardware

Case studies 2009-01-01

Apple continues abuse of App store

Apple continues abuse of App storeYou miss the pointApple's not keeping "cr@p" out, as you say. It's actively and knowingly blocking apps that are competitive with their own. They admit as much in the notices they sent to the rejected developers. It's a clear-cut case of anti-competitive behavior. Ease of...

Tags: Operating systems, Apple Inc., App Store

Discussion threads 2008-12-23

The uncertainties of social media for traditional brands

Guest post: Drew Bartkiewicz is a vice president of Technology and New Media Markets for The Hartford, and author of the upcoming book, Unseen Liability. In today's 24/7 business world, companies and their customers are consuming, sharing and storing data at an unprecedented rate. This data has...

Tags: Web, Brand, Network, Social Media, Tiffany, Web 2.0, Intellectual Property, Internet, Research & Development, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-25

Insurers place first bid made in health reform game

Insurers place first bid made in health reform gameTaking the easier questions.Sometimes Who shall live? and Who shall die? are policy questions subject to cost benefit analyses. You're right. And some day those decisions may be made by the equivalent of a clemency board for death sentences. ...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, game, insurance company, health care, insurance, community rating, healthy people

Discussion threads 2008-11-21

Firefox rushes out fix for password manager bug

Firefox rushes out fix for password manager bugsweetThis is nice and all but how bout a fix for the norton 360 bug?RE: Firefox rushes out fix for password manager bugWhy one earth is this tagged for security?"Exploit code, Data theft, Denial of Service DoS, Malware,"It's not a security bug that...

Tags: Web browsers, Notebooks, password, Mozilla Firefox, security, password manager bug, Password Manager

Discussion threads 2008-09-28

Defendant in key RIAA decision destroyed evidence

Defendant in key RIAA decision destroyed evidenceSo they are sueing someone with no money. LOLKnow what my insurance company told me when i was hit by a driver with no insurance, no job and was living with relatives.... "to bad for you" I was lucky, my mother insisted...

Tags: E-mail, Insurance, fool, RIAA

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

Canada, U.S. two ships passing in the ideological night

Canada, U.S. two ships passing in the ideological night.....Our arrogance is our own demise. It's that simple. ]:)We already have a crippled two-level systemIt's called Medicare/Medicaid.And once again the author shows his ignorance of economics. In a truly private, competitive health care system, if universal electronic records provided increased profits,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Strategy, health care, ideology, ideological night, enormous innovation, surcharge, innovation

Discussion threads 2008-08-25

Will the EMR movement become a political divide

Will the EMR movement become a political divideFYI: Its now EHR, not EMR...the change is to include dental, pyschological and other healthcare services.Electronic Health Records.We are in the middle of deployment strategy planning. The cost of deploying equipment and personell to get this up and running is staggering. ...

Tags: Vertical industries, E-health, HEALTHCARE, Practical Reality, EMR, EMR movement, political divide, divide, government

Discussion threads 2008-08-22

Do 4 in 5 of us want real health care reform?

Do 4 in 5 of us want real health care reform?Universal not a good idea . . .Universal health care is not that good of an idea - the taxes can really kill an economy, and there's no guarantee the quality will be any better.We simply need a better idea.Remember...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Universal Health Care, health care, insurance

Discussion threads 2008-08-08

The key barrier to health care reform

The key barrier to health care reformReducing residenciesHey, at least Georgia [b]has[/b] residencies. Arizona's University Hospital has, thanks to Andrew Weil, turned all of its general practice residencies into NCCAAM-funded "alternative health care" training programs.If you think it's bad now, wait until your insurance only covers "therapeutic touch" and...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, barrier, health care, residency, physician

Discussion threads 2008-07-21