Brian T. Horowitz

NEW YORK—EMC’s Backup and Recovery Services division has launched on July 10 a series of new products aimed at converting “accidental architectures” into storage and data protection setups that allow companies to consolidate their data infrastructure in a Protection Storage Architecture. “Deployment of a Protection Storage Architecture, which arrests the proliferation of the ‘accidental architectures’ […]

Although 55 percent of accountable care organizations have deployed remote patient-monitoring (RPM) technology, many doubt how these systems can help their clinical systems and bottom line, revealed a new report by Spyglass Consulting Group. Of health care organizations interviewed, 71 percent were uncertain about integrating RPM technology with clinical care workflows and systems, including electronic […]

Azumio has unveiled a new iPhone app called Argus to allow consumers to track their fitness, diet and sleeping patterns in a single mobile tool. Launched July 3, the free app consolidates data from devices such as Withings’ weight scale and the MapMyFitness app as well as other Azumio apps such as Instant Heart Rate […]

Investment in the digital health industry is growing but not as much as in years past, according to a midyear report by heaIth IT startup accelerator Rock Health. Funding of digital health companies totaled $849 million through June 30, 2013, a 12 percent growth in investment over the first half of 2013, compared with a […]

Blue Marble Games Aid People With Traumatic Brain Injuries by Brian Horowitz Interactive Exercise for the Elderly A prototype game for the elderly, Zoezi Park uses Microsoft’s Kinect to provide an interactive exercise program consisting of an obstacle course with stations along the way. “Zoezi” is a Swahili word for exercise. Performing the exercises allows […]

Smile Brands has developed a Web-based iPad app for dentists using Sencha’s Touch platform, an end-to-end framework that allows developers to design and deploy HTML5 applications. The company wanted to build a browser-based application to handle practice management after its paper-based legacy system of capturing clinical information and managing documentation “broke down,” said Marlin Clark, […]

Despite the ongoing move to electronic health records (EHRs) in health care, many doctors still prefer to print out documents and make annotations on hard copy. Chen Medical, a Florida-based health system for seniors, has turned to PrintMe Mobile from Electronics for Imaging (EFI) to do just that. Since many of its users are low-income […]

Amid big data analytics’ increasing role in health care, software developer GNS Healthcare and nonprofit health plan provider Cambia Health Solutions announced June 27 that they will build a medication adherence platform to allow health professionals to study the causal relationship between adhering to medication routines and reducing health care costs. Called Medication Adherence, the […]

As an Oct. 1 deadline approaches for open enrollment in health insurance exchanges (HIXes), mandated under the Affordable Care Act, IT vendors, the federal government and states are rushing to complete the HIXes in time. The Government Accountability Office (GAO), the watchdog arm for Congress, issued a report June 19 stating that HIXes are behind […]

As doctors look to communicate quickly through text messaging without violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Sprint has announced it will offer two secure messaging platforms for health care. They are Enterprise Message-Secure, powered by Israeli secure messaging company TeleMessage, and TigerText’s TigerText Pro. TigerText Pro is a secure mobile-messaging platform operating […]

IT as a service (ITaaS) will bring cost savings to the health care IT industry, according to a report by MeriTalk, a public/private partnership and an online community for government IT. ITaaS, a combination of software as a service, platform as a service and infrastructure as a service, can save health care organizations $11 billion, […]

Online tools are a helpful resource for 59 percent of caregivers with Internet access, but as far as tracking when a person takes medication or schedules refills, they’ve yet to learn how mobile applications may help, a new report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project revealed. Online and mobile tools for medication compliance […]