Brian T. Horowitz

IBM has donated its Project Blue Spruce software code to two health initiatives to enable real-time Web collaboration. Blue Spruce will allow for cobrowsing and online consultations in iTel’s iTelepsych.com telehealth platform and also provide the infrastructure for a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) research study, called COPDGene, at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). […]

Just as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs played a huge role in personal computing, music, telecommunications and consumer electronics, his inventions have left a mark in health care as well. When we think of “m-health” and using mobile devices to manage chronic conditions, e-prescribe medications and track how fast you run, the first devices that come […]

Conference organizer Health 2.0 and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have launched two new developer challenges for health care: “One in a Million Hearts” and “PopHealth Tools Development.” The challenges are part of the Investing in Innovation (i2) program, which […]

Verizon and Duke University have announced a partnership that the two parties say will build on cloud computing and mobile technology to change how health care is delivered. “For every project we’ve done, it comes back to how do we reconceptualize this so it hasn’t been done previously,” Kevin Schulman, director of the health sector […]

With security breaches always a threat, health care organizations need to find a way to share data to provide quality of care while also keeping data secure. Recent breaches involved misplaced backup tapes for Tricare, a provider of health care services to active and retired military personnel, and 20,000 patient records leaked to a private […]

Imprivata, a provider of access-management tools, has released the results of a survey showing health care poised to take the lead in desktop virtualization adoption in the next 12 months.For the report called “2011 Virtualization Trends in Healthcare,” researchers interviewed 477 IT managers in multiple industries, including health care and financial services. Health care had […]

Practice Fusion plans to launch native iPhone and Android versions of its electronic health record (EHR) application within a couple of months. The company demoed versions of the EHR for iOS and Android on Sept. 27 at the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco. Doctors, nurses and other medical professionals will be able to access […]

Oracle has announced a health insurance exchange (HIX) platform that aligns several of its existing applications to allow states to create a marketplace for purchasing health insurance. Under the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), states must establish health insurance exchanges by 2014. “The impending rollout of health insurance exchanges will require state […]

As health care facilities increasingly adopt electronic health records (EHRs), a large number of consumers are fearful of the ability of organizations to keep them secure, according to a survey performed by Harris Interactive and commissioned by SailPoint. SailPoint is a developer of identity-management and governance applications that help IT managers in industries such as […]

Consulting firm PwC‘s Health Research Institute has come out with a report revealing that health organizations are underprepared to secure patient medical information. The report, “Old Data Learns New Tricks: Managing Patient Privacy and Security on a New Data-Sharing Playground,” shows that despite advances in electronic health records (EHRs) software and security technology, health care […]

Voalt??« has unveiled a new version of its iPhone hospital messaging application equipped with AirWatch’s mobile device management technology. AirWatch develops smartphone security and mobile device management applications for enterprises and provides a single console to manage mobile security among multiple device types. The Voalt??« Connect application for the iPhone allows caregivers to send and […]

MedicalMine, a nonprofit health care IT software company, has announced new Surescripts’ e-prescription capabilities for its ChARM electronic health records platform. The company has completed certification to add the Surescripts service, which is the largest electronic prescription network in the United States. The e-prescribing features allow doctors to send messages from the cloud application to […]