Brian T. Horowitz

The Apple iPad was up to the task of reviewing Magnetic Resonance images of emergency spinal injury cases, a study published in the journal Academic Radiology revealed. MRIs are used in radiology to examine the ligaments and pathology of the spinal cord. In the journal’s August issue, Jonathan P. McNulty, head of teaching and learning […]

StillSecure, a company that offers managed network security and certified compliance, has announced HIPAA Essential, a service that provides networking as well as support for health care providers as they aim to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Announced July 24, HIPAA Essential offers a firewall, intrusion detection and prevention (IDPS), […]

Moffitt Cancer Center, in Tampa, Fla., is using the Cisco Pulse video analytics platform to search through videos using keywords to enable more efficient cancer research and learning. Pulse uses voice recognition to search through videos using keyword tagging. Users can browse libraries of videos by speaker or topic. The system presents tags automatically and […]

Vitals, a resource that allows people to look up health care providers, has launched an iPhone application that allows patients to search for doctors while on the move. Announced July 18, the app enables patients to rate doctors in top 10 lists, save the physician’s contact info and store images of multiple health insurance cards. […]

IT managers aren’t prepared to handle the deluge of data in health care, Oracle revealed in its new report, “From Overload to Impact: An Industry Scorecard on Big Data Business Challenges,” released July 17. More than three-fourths (77 percent) of health care executives gave their organization a “C” or below for managing the “data deluge,” […]

Automatic Data Processing, a business outsourcer known for its payroll, tax and benefits processing applications, has unveiled an iPad version of its AdvancedMD cloud medical practice software. ADP acquired AdvancedMD, a developer of cloud health care IT applications, March 1, 2011. The new iPad app allows doctors to access electronic health records (EHRs) as well […]

Health information exchanges, which enable the sharing of electronic health records throughout states or communities, are evolving to incorporate additional applications for analytics, “actionable” data and patient engagement, according to IDC’s latest MarketScape report. IDC released its report in two stages: one on “platform” HIEs July 16 and one on “packaged” HIEs July 12. The […]

Verizon Enterprise Solutions and Zipit Wireless are looking to keep old-school paging in the past. Zipit, a provider of wireless connectivity for mobile devices, has introduced an application called Zipit Confirm that lets doctors and clinicians connect using secure messaging. The app includes the ability to make voice over IP (VOIP) calls, a feature not […]

U.S. News & World Report has published its list of “Most Connected Hospitals,” with 156 hospitals making this year’s rankings, announced on July 17. To be considered for the list, hospitals needed to meet the federal government’s guidelines on “meaningful use” of electronic health records (EHRs) by July 10. “This is the first year we’ve […]

Happtique, which runs a marketplace for mobile health applications, has released its draft guidelines on medical app development. Described as a “Good Housekeeping” seal of mobile apps by Happtique CEO Ben Chodor, the App Certification Program specifies which types of apps satisfy standards on operability, privacy, security and content, the company reported. Happtique is a […]

Motion Computing, a manufacturer of rugged tablets, has introduced the CL910 Tablet PC, its latest model for the health care, field service and retail industries. The model has been updated with an Intel dual-core processor, 128GB of solid-state memory and 2GB of RAM. It runs Windows 7 Professional and incorporates a 1.6GHz Atom N2600 dual-core […]

While technology companies are renewing their efforts to develop the infrastructure to create health insurance exchanges following the Supreme Court’s decision upholding “Obamacare,” the public is split on whether they would use HIXes, according to a study by Harris Interactive. Only 29 percent of the public would consider using the exchanges, according to the Harris […]