The California Department of Workers' Compensation has approved a request from Harbor Health Systems, a One Call Care Management company, to offer telemedicine through its medical provider networks (MPNs).  "We can now offer the capability to patients and to payers to search the Harborsys MPN provider directory and find high performing physicians who offer telemedicine, or to be directed to these physicians by our Medical Access Assistant staff," Linda Lane, president of Harbor Health Systems, said in a press release. Harbor Health is among the first companies in California to receive state approval to provide this type of service. "The telemedicine capability and the ability to find physicians who offer this service is especially important in rural areas, as well as to make care immediately accessible twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year."

LexisNexis Risk Solutions, the provider of data and analytics in insurance telematics, and TrueMotion, the maker of smartphone usage-based insurance (UBI) technology, recently teamed up to provide insurers greater flexibility and consumer-focused UBI programs. Through this alliance, TrueMotion is joining the LexisNexis Telematics Exchange, which will allow insurance carriers who opt-in to take advantage of data from the industry and OEMs, make better decisions faster, and gain unique insights for competitive advantage.

Accident Fund Insurance Company of America, one of the nation's leading workers' compensation insurance organizations in the country, will be implementing the Distribution Management Suite from VUE Software. Accident Fund is in the process of modernizing their enterprise platforms to encourage and maximize the talent of every individual on their team, and achieve their customer-centric goals. VUE's digital platform will be supporting the management of Accident Fund's producers by delivering one-click synchronization to the NIPR and PDB, flexible producer compensation and incentive programs, and a web-based insurance-specific CRM application.