Brian T. Horowitz

CSC, an IT integrator and cloud-service provider, has released a new report suggesting that health care IT departments should act fast to support the mobile devices that physicians are using.Doctors are adopting smartphones at more than twice the rate of the general population, according to CSC’s report, called “Harnessing the Value of mHealth for Your […]

Verizon has announced enhancements to its Universal Identity Services-Healthcare platform to allow for easy but secure access to electronic health records (EHRs) and health information exchanges (HIEs) on mobile devices. Launched in November 2010, UIS is a managed service from Verizon’s Terremark IT services subsidiary. UIS is a software as a service (SaaS) utility that […]

Later this year, doctors will be able to use an authentication badge that incorporates Teradici zero client firmware, Imprivata’s OneSign authentication technology and VMware’s new backend View 5 software to roam from one virtualized desktop to another. With Teradici’s PC-over-IP (PCoIP) firmware and remote client chip, Imprivata’s OneSign authentication technology will allow doctors to swipe […]

Royal Philips Electronics has unveiled the IntelliVue MX40, a wireless health monitor that allows doctors and nurses to track the vital signs of patients at or away from the hospital bed. The device supports the company’s Smart-hoppingwireless protocol, a wireless spectrum reserved for medical telemetry. The IntelliVue Telemetry System transmits wireless signals of patients’ vital […]

Sony says it will ship two Android Honeycomb tablets in the coming weeks: the Sony Tablet S with an innovative fold-over look in September, and the Tablet P with a dual-screen clamshell design by the end of 2011. The 9.4-inch, 1,280×768-pixel touch-screen of the Tablet S (code-named S1) resembles a pad of paper with sheets […]

Novation, a health care contracting services company, finds that VHA PriceLynx, a business intelligence application for the Apple iPhone and iPad, allows it to help health care organizations make supply purchasing more efficient while saving hospitals millions of dollars.The largest supply contractor for health care in the United States, Novation aids health care organizations in […]

Drchrono, maker of an EHR (electronic health record) application for the Apple iPad, has introduced OnPatient, a free cloud-based patient check-in application for the popular iOS tablet. Announced on Aug. 18, OnPatient eliminates a lot of the check-in paperwork and duplicate data entry, according to Drchrono co-founder Daniel Kivatinos. When patients fill out paper forms, […]

In an annual report called IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2011/2012, Computer Economics, an IT research and advisory firm, reveals that 61 percent of health care organizations are increasing IT staff head counts in 2011. Computer Economics conducts the study to give key metrics to IT managers to help them with organizing finance and strategy. […]

Nuance Communications has unveiled Dragon Medical Practice Edition, a new edition to its speech-recognition software portfolio to allow small practices of 24 or fewer doctors to benefit from the ability to dictate patient conditions into electronic health records. For Practice Medical Edition, Nuance built the templates and macros to support the workflow of a small […]

Avisena, a practice-management software company, has announced it will integrate Intuit Health’s patient portal into its existing medical billing software to allow patients to pay their bills online and communicate electronically with their doctors. With Avisena’s software geared toward the provider’s workflow, the Intuit portal will add a way for patients to pay their bills. […]

The increasing use of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, as well as cutting-edge technologies, is pushing the health care industry to invest more in its WiFi infrastructure. In turn, these changes mean that the wireless market within health care is poised to grow to a $1.3 billion industry within the next five years, […]

Health insurer Aetna has launched new mobile tools for the iPhone, iPad and Android using NaviNet’s Mobile Connect platform to enable physicians in Florida to receive mobile alerts about a patient’s status and e-prescribe medication. The goal of the collaboration between Aetna and NaviNet is to provide better communication between doctors and patients and allow […]