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Painkiller Prescribing Varies By State, Highest in South; Florida Reverses Trend:

Paul Hughes
July 7, 2014

Health care providers in some states prescribe far more painkillers than those in other states, according to a new government report. Health care providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for opioid…

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Texas-style drug formulary could help other states reduce comp costs: Study |

Paul Hughes
June 30, 2014

State workers compensation systems could benefit from following Texas and adopting a closed drug formulary, according to a benchmarking report released Wednesday by the Workers Compensation Research Institute. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based…

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Unlocking the Potential of Big Data for Underwriting

Paul Hughes
June 24, 2014

Big data and analytics are the sentinel change agents in an insurance environment that is being impacted by radical shifts in how underwriters assess risk and how consumers buy insurance.…

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Firing Fear Among New Predictors of Workers’ Comp Outcomes:

Paul Hughes
June 23, 2014

Workers’ compensation researchers have identified anxiety over being fired and other new predictors of worker outcomes that they say can help public officials, payors and health care providers improve the…

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Visual Business Intelligence – Why Do We Visualize Quantitative Data?

Paul Hughes
June 16, 2014

Why Do We Visualize Quantitative Data? We visualize quantitative data to perform three fundamental tasks in an effort to achieve three essential goals: These three tasks are so fundamental to…

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Health reform may push medical claims to property/casualty insurers |

Paul Hughes
June 16, 2014

LONG BEACH, California — The law of unintended consequences is playing out in the wake of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as ramifications “trickle down” through the property/casualty…

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Analytics Maturity: Achieving, Sustaining Competitive Advantage |

Paul Hughes
June 11, 2014

To survive and thrive in today’s hyper-competitive business environment, companies need the ability to act quickly on business opportunities and threats. We’ve entered the Age of Analytics.Organizations that collect, analyze,…

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Standard & Poors Rating Services Conference Addresses Big Data |

Paul Hughes
June 10, 2014

Standard & Poors Rating Services Conference Addresses Big Data | The insurance industry is quickly adapting to become more sophisticated in their use of big data, many still consider themselves…

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