Brian T. Horowitz

Medical identity theft is a real threat and is on the rise, according to an annual survey on health care data security by the Ponemon Institute, a company that conducts research on privacy and data in multiple industries. Identity theft was previously considered an issue just for consumers, but now it’s becoming more of a […]

Doctors spend the most time on Web-based electronic health record sites, according to new data released Dec. 3 by digital analytics company ComScore. Websites such as Medscape, where doctors access professional content, received 81 percent of physician visits, according to ComScore, which along with performance measurement and analytics firm Symphony Solutions surveyed 1,000 U.S. physicians […]

GE Healthcare has unveiled Centricity Business 5.1, an update to the company’s revenue-cycle management (RCM) platform for health care. Announced Dec. 5, the new version will enable integrated delivery networks, hospitals and large practices to make payment systems more efficient and boost the quality of care, GE reported. Centricity is also the brand name for […]

Nurses are increasingly using their personal smartphones on the job, but hospital IT departments are hesitant to support them on their networks, according to a new report by the Spyglass Consulting Group. Released Dec. 3, the report, titled “Point of Care Computing for Nursing 2012,” examined the bring your own device (BYOD) patterns of nurses […]

AT&T has launched a cloud patient-monitoring service that will help doctors manage patients’ chronic diseases through live video chat. Introduced Dec. 4, the remote-patient-monitoring (RPM) platform is built on an Ericsson cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) infrastructure. Ericsson’s Remote Patient Monitoring System uses Bluetooth devices and medical sensors to transmit patients’ vital signs remotely […]

Mobile technology company Diversinet has launched the MobiHealth Wallet, an application that provides a way for patients to download their personal health records to their smartphones using the federal Blue Button data automation tool so they can share them with their doctors. Diversinet announced the MobiHealth Wallet at the mHealth Summit in National Harbor, Md., […]

Startup mobile app developer Anzu has launched a cloud-based digital knowledge platform for physicians on the iPad, called AnzuMedical. The digital knowledge platform allows doctors to access medical specialty information on the Apple tablet. Launched Nov. 29, AnzuMedical provides access to research journals, videos and clinical cases. Based in Phoenix, Anzu is targeting medical societies […]

Big data is being used to better understand how diseases affect human populations. Archimedes, an organization that crafts mathematical models of human diseases and interventions, is using the open-source Hadoop platform and Univa’s Grid Engine distributed resource-management platform to power its mathematical modeling software. Univa is a provider of automation and management software for computational […]

Deploy Advanced Network Monitoring To combat cyber-security threats, health care organizations should deploy advanced network monitoring tools containing software algorithms and rules that can detect when patient health information is compromised, Jared Rhoads, senior research specialist at CSC, an IT services provider, told eWEEK. The algorithms can flag a threat so that an information security […]

Denmark-based pharmaceutical firm Novo Nordisk has announced a mobile app called HemaGo that enables hemophilia patients to keep track of their bleeding episodes. Hemophilia is a genetic disorder in which the blood fails to clot normally. People with hemophilia are constantly at risk from uncontrolled bleeding from the slightest injury without medication and constant monitoring. […]

A Patient Care Dashboard Rounds features a dashboard that shows grids of both patients and the care team. Icons allow doctors to open screens to enter notes or view patient charts. They can check directions to get to a patient around the hospital, as well as see diagnoses, medications and links to interact with other […]

Polycom has announced an effort by the University of Texas Medical Branch to bring remote medical aid to researchers working in Antarctica near the South Pole. UTMB is using Polycom’s RMX 2000 real-time media conference system, which is part of the company’s RealPresence Platform, to run a telemedicine network with 110,000 face-to-face patient consultations and […]