Brian T. Horowitz

For the NeoNatal Intensive Care unit at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, big data tools have proven valuable to allow doctors to monitor the vital signs of premature infants around the clock. The hospital is working on early identification of newborn babies with an infection called late-onset neonatal sepsis, a blood infection […]

The deadline for compliance with the new Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Omnibus rule has passed. As of Sept. 23, IT vendors are required to sign business associate agreements when working with health care providers on cloud services that involve access to patient data. Although the deadline was uneventful for large IT companies, […]

With Google announcing a new venture into health care with the launch of Calico, soon after pulling the plug on Google Health, the company has signaled its intentions to be a player in the health care space. The appointment of Arthur D. Levinson, the Apple chairman and former CEO of Genentech, could make the venture […]

A lack of access to their own electronic health records (EHRs) could lead many patients to switch doctors, IT consulting firm Accenture has revealed. In fact, 41 percent of patients would sign up with a new doctor to be able to access their own EHRs when their current provider doesn’t offer this capability, according to […]

Half of consumers are unaware that medical identity theft can damage their medical records and threaten their lives with inaccuracies, according to a new report by the Ponemon Institute, an organization that conducts research on privacy and data. Identity theft—which can involve using someone’s identity to receive medical services or prescription drugs—leads to misdiagnosis, mistreatment […]

Enterprise software vendor Infor has introduced its Implementation Accelerator for Healthcare, a set of menus, templates and training content designed to supplement its Lawson software, a set of financial management, human capital management, procurement and analytics applications. The templates in the Implementation Accelerator will allow health care organizations to manage financials, human capital and supply […]

iPad Apps Provide Mobile Tools for Military Veterans’ Caregivers by Brian T. Horowitz Launch Pad Provides Access to Apps Launchpad comes preinstalled on the 900 iPads provided by the VA for use in the caregiver pilot. It allows users to access the VA’s mobile health apps. Health Advocate App Enables Remote Provisioning With the VA’s […]

Qualcomm Life, a division of Qualcomm, has unveiled 2net Mobile, a version of its remote-monitoring cloud platform that allows patients to transmit data from medical sensors to mobile devices. The 2net Mobile software module will allow Android 4.x and higher devices such as smartphones and tablets to act as a gateway like that of the […]

Health insurers have further to go in using mobile tools and social media to develop a community with consumers, according to EveryMove, a health rewards-based marketing and incentives company. It has released its EveryMove 100 Health Insurance Index, which ranked the top 100 health insurance companies in the United States on how they engage with […]

Imprivata has unveiled OneSign ProveID Embedded, an API that is designed to allow health care providers to enable fast, secure No Click Access to electronic health records (EHRs) and similar clinical software in a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). “Strong authentication allows health care organizations to optimize their virtual desktop environments by allowing clinicians to quickly […]

In schools, software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms aid school nurses in monitoring students’ medications and health needs. HealthOffice medical-record software and Ericom’s SaaS remote-access platform allows school medical personnel to keep track of students’ conditions. Through Ericom’s PowerTerm WebConnect platform, parents can use a SaaS platform to remotely access their children’s records, such as whether a vaccine […]

As Dr. Farzad Mostashari, the national coordinator for health IT, prepares to leave his post this fall, the Obama administration is left without a champion for electronic health record (EHR) adoption. “We will lose a valuable cheerleader that actually understood the various market forces affecting the industry,” Shahid Shah, CEO of IT consulting firm Netspective […]