Brian T. Horowitz

With telehealth growing as an option to connect doctors and patients when in-person consultations aren’t feasible, Samsung Mobile will now offer Honeywell HomeMed’s new remote-care platform on its 7-inch Samsung Galaxy tablet. Telehealth provider Honeywell HomeMed, a division of Honeywell International, has announced that by using its Genesis Touch software, patients and caregivers will be […]

Avaya, a developer of networking and unified communications tools, unveiled a future health care iOS messaging tool along with other new products at the HIMSS12 health care IT conference in Las Vegas. The company showed its Mobile Activity Assistant, an app that provides secure communication for nurses and hospital staff through text messaging. It will […]

AT&T is looking to link small practices with larger hospitals by collaborating with the American Medical Association. The telecom company will add the AMA’s Amagine physician community portal to its Healthcare Community Online (HCO) platform. Amagine will bring collaborative-care and additional health information exchange (HIE) functionality. The AMA is the national professional association that connects […]

Personal mobile devices are becoming a fixture in health care as 85 percent of hospital IT departments allow doctors and staff to use personal devices at work, according to a new survey of health care IT professionals by Aruba Networks, a manufacturer of mobile networking infrastructure. Aruba announced the results of its bring-your-own-device (BYOD) survey […]

Real Time Innovations (RTI), a developer of service-oriented architecture (SOA) middleware for the aerospace and defense industries, is branching out into health care with its new Connext software suite. Connext provides a DataBus to link information within applications across medical devices and IT systems. The software incorporates peer-to-peer messages to connect data across enterprises without […]

Dell and Siemens are coming together to provide a massive amount of cloud storage space for medical images. The two companies will create the Siemens Image Sharing and Archiving (ISA) service, which will provide a cloud platform for vendor-neutral image archiving and sharing. ISA will incorporate Dell’s Unified Clinical Archive. The Dell archive will also […]

UnitedHealth Group’s Optum health services business has launched an open-cloud platform to allow developers to create and host health care applications. The cloud offers a developer toolkit with modules that allow doctors to maintain compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). It also includes a toolkit for CIOs to enable deployment of […]

More than 17,000 mobile health applications are on the market, yet they’re not compatible with each other. To resolve this problem, AT&T is planning to hook up these proprietary tools. The company has launched a beta version of a cloud developer portal called Developer Center ForHealth to allow these mobile apps to be accessible by […]

Microsoft and GE Healthcare’s joint venture in health care IT now has a name. The companies are calling their corporate offspring Caradigm and have also installed a leadership team for the new venture. With the name “Caradigm,” Microsoft and GE are looking to create a “paradigm” shift in “care” delivery from providing care of a […]

With the launch of the Apple iPad 3 around the corner, health insurance agents now have a way to sign up seniors with coverage using the popular tablet. DRX, a developer of health care comparison tools, has unveiled a new iPad app that enables health care sales agents to streamline the Medicare enrollment process. Consumers, […]

From a driver’s license to a knee replacement, bar-code scanners can now read almost anything. Intermec Technologies, a manufacturer of data warehousing and rugged mobile computing products, has introduced its SG20 bar-code scanner, which allows caregivers to keep track of patients’ data and doctors to avoid losing surgical equipment. Launched Feb. 13, the SG20 has […]

It might be called a case of extreme bring-your-own-device (BYOD) syndrome. A growing number of federal employees, including many in the defense or national security industries, are using their own smartphones, tablets and laptops for work, according to a new report by CDW Government (CDW-G). The “Federal Mobility Report” examines how government workers use mobile […]