Brian T. Horowitz

eClinicalWorks, an electronic health record company, has announced a $25 million investment over the next year in the consumer engagement market by launching the Health and Online Wellness (Healow) business unit. Announced on Feb. 6, Healow is an effort to better connect patients with their doctors and medical data. “It’s about patients having access and […]

For JDRF, formerly known as the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, fund-raising and cloud computing have come together. JDRF, a nonprofit organization focused on type 1 diabetes research, is using cloud computing to create a single location to track 5 million donor records. Since its founding in 1970, JDRF has raised more than $1.6 billion for […]

Big data is going through a transformation, and health care IT will be a major beneficiary of its analytics capabilities, according to an executive at EMC, a major provider of cloud computing, data backup and big data infrastructure. The health care industry can use big data analytics to better detect diseases and aid medical research. […]

ITX Enterprises, a virtual desktop service provider for behavioral health professionals, plans to expand its network of caregivers nationally through a private cloud managed by Hewlett-Packard. The private cloud will allow behavioral health professionals in the field to log in to virtual desktops and eliminate paperwork, according to HP, which is providing the hardware and […]

Health care IT investing continues to grow robustly as the industry saw nearly $1.2 billion in venture capital funding in 2012, more than double the VC funding of $480 million in 2011, according to a report by the Mercom Capital Group. The Jan. 28 report shows that the most deals occurred in the fourth quarter, […]

SecuraTrac, a mobile health monitor company, has debuted a new mobile application called SecuraFone Health that receives a patient’s heart rate and respiration data from a wireless patch by Vital Connect, a developer of biosensor and secure cloud technologies. The company demonstrated SecuraFone Health earlier this month at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las […]

Start With Secure Email “Use any means you’ve got to send the information electronically,” Cormier advised. A clinical summary containing the patient’s diagnoses, current medications and allergy info can be sent using basic tools, such as secure email. “Being able to send that information is one of the bigger challenges for coordinated care, and often […]

An ordinary tweet about a case of the flu just might become a part of scientific research. Computer scientists at Johns Hopkins University are using Twitter to track the number of flu cases in the United States. The researchers have developed a way to use machine learning to track flu cases in real time and […]

Motorola Solutions has introduced a new Wide Area Network (WAN)-connected MC45 mobile computer to allow workers to track equipment, identify patients in hospitals and trace inventory. The device is also marketed toward small and midsize businesses, government, transportation and field sales. At $1,345, the MC45 is a value model for rugged field use, according to […]

Sprint has announced it will carry a new entry in Kyocera’s Dura Series, the Torque Android smartphone, due to reach the market this spring. The Dura Series is Kyocera’s line of phones suitable for extreme operating conditions. Announced Jan. 28, the Torque features 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) connectivity and works with Sprint’s Direct Connect push-to-talk […]

GE Healthcare has unveiled Centricity Practice 11, the latest version of its combined electronic health record and practice management software that includes new features for claims code processing using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 identifier. Announced on Jan. 24, Centricity Practice 11 incorporates a dynamic search engine and one-click data entry to ease billing […]

Many organizations are expanding their support for the bring-your-own device (BYOD) phenomenon beyond the United States to their operations overseas, according to an annual survey by Good Technology, a mobile security provider. According to the report, 55 percent of the 100 customers interviewed by Good were supporting BYOD in multiple countries compared with 45 percent […]