Brian T. Horowitz

Lenovo is rolling out its new ThinkPad X130e with rugged features to survive harsh use during a K-12 school day or bumpy ambulance ride. Rugged features include a rubber bumper in the top cover to absorb impact and reinforced and recessed ports to limit abuse. In addition, a 33 percent stronger corner breaks the device’s […]

Microsoft Surface Enables Collaboration Surface has the potential to improve the clinical workflow in health care, by allowing doctors to collaborate with staff and engage patients, according to Microsoft. Version 2.0 of Surface, developed with Samsung and called the Samsung SUR40, will allow companies to wall-mount the device with a VESA mount. Samsung, Microsoft Reduce […]

Known for computer peripherals and home entertainment equipment such as speakers and remotes, Logitech has entered the health care space with its Webcams, which enable doctors and patients to connect on a telepsychiatry platform from Secure Telehealth. Secure Telehealth provides psychiatry services over an encrypted cloud-based Web platform for mentally ill patients or those on […]

The Ponemon Institute, a research firm that advises organizations on data security and privacy, has released a new survey of the health care industry showing a 32 percent increase in data breaches. Data security consulting firm ID Experts sponsored Ponemon’s report, the second-annual “Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and Data Security,” announced on Dec. 1. […]

Sutter Health, a hospital system in Northern California, faces two class-action lawsuits from patients for leaving the information of 4.24 million people vulnerable to exposure. During the weekend of Oct. 15-16, a rock was thrown through the window of Sutter’s administrative offices in Sacramento, Calif., and then a desktop PC along with monitors, mice and […]

AT&T and Accenture have launched Accenture Medical Imaging Solution, a cloud database that will allow hospitals to centrally manage access to medical images and enable doctors and radiologists to collaborate on care. Accenture is an IT consulting and services firm as well as a systems integrator. The two companies announced the new platform at the […]

If you’re looking to burn off the pounds from that Thanksgiving turkey dinner or holiday party this year, plenty of applications for your smartphone can help. In fact, so many health apps are being developed that ABI Research is predicting the market will exceed $400 in revenue by 2016. Areas driving the growth are wearable […]

Social media, privacy and security, and health insurance exchanges (HIXs) will be among the top issues in health care in 2012, according to a report by consulting firm PwC’s Health Research Institute. In the report, “Top Health Industry Issues of 2012: Connecting in Uncertainty,” PwC suggests that more people are using social media tools such […]

Nonprofit health IT vendor HealthBridge has announced the use of IBM’s Initiate Patient software to bolster an existing health information exchange (HIE) for the Cincinnati region. Formed in 1997, HealthBridge is a leading HIE organization that serves Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio (the Greater Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky region). It consists of 50 hospitals, 800 physician practices and […]

Printer manufacturer Lexmark is branching out to create new business process management (BPM) software for health care and other industry verticals, such as education, financial services, government and retail. The company plans to leverage the enterprise content management (ECM) capabilities of its stand-alone Perceptive Software unit and the BPM tools of Netherlands-based Pallas Athena to […]

Verizon Connected Health Solutions and LexisNexis have demonstrated software platforms to help government agencies and commercial health care organizations use data-analysis techniques to uncover medical claim fraud. Both companies displayed their anti-fraud products at the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association (NHCAA) Institute’s Annual Training Conference in Atlanta, which runs from Nov. 15-18. Verizon Fraud Management […]

CompTIA, the nonprofit IT association for the IT industry, has released its “Third Annual Healthcare IT Insights and Opportunities” study showing small physician practices continuing to complement laptops and desktop PCs with smartphones and tablets but slow to adopt cloud computing services. The organization conducted the study, announced on Nov. 16, to find out where […]