Brian T. Horowitz

Electronic health record vendor CareCloud has unveiled the next generation of its Web-based CareCloud Charts software to allow doctors to speed up documentation of patient visits. Introduced on July 16, the new version of Charts is built around what the company calls “rapid charting,” which involves opening a note for a patient visit, documenting findings […]

MediSafe Project, which offers a medication adherence cloud-based mobile platform, has released data claiming a medication adherence rate of around 80 percent for patients relying on its mobile app for reminders to take their type 2 diabetes medication. The app reminds users when they need to take medication and sends an alert to a family […]

Independence Blue Cross (IBC) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System (Penn Medicine) are launching a study to determine how electronic pill caps help patients adhere to their medication regimens. Researchers will examine if the beeping devices help improve medication adherence. Vitality’s GlowCap fits on ordinary pill bottles from a pharmacy and offers medication reminders, […]

Hiring is on the rise in health care IT, according to a report by HIMSS Analytics, a nonprofit subsidiary of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). More than 85 percent of 224 executives from health care firms and IT vendors reported that their organization hired at least one employee in 2012, HIMSS Analytics […]

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, […]