Brian T. Horowitz

Drchrono, a health care software vendor, announced it has added M*Modal’s speech-to-text application to its electronic health record program for the Apple iPad. The M*Modal app allows doctors to dictate patients’ diagnoses and examination results into health records. Drchrono is a free download from Apple’s iTunes App Store. Called “Speech Understanding,” the M*Modal technology provides […]

CompTIA, a nonprofit trade association for the IT industry, has announced it will offer an industry credential for IT professionals who complete training on how to install, manage and troubleshoot equipment and software for electronic health record platforms. Rolling out EHR platforms will bring tens of thousands of new jobs in the next several years, […]

In advance of the July 31 launch of the Cisco Cius enterprise Android tablet, Palomar Pomerado Health System in San Diego has deployed the Cius in a pilot trial to enable doctors to access mobile health applications from a private cloud. Palomar has built a set of applications called MIAA (Medical Information Anytime Anywhere). MIAA […]

With Google Health about to shutter, nonprofit Dossia is taking a contrary position by launching the latest version of Dossia Health Manager, a consumer PHR (personal health record) platform offered by employers.Launched in 2006, Dossia is a nonprofit consortium of employers looking to aggregate health data to allow workers to make better choices and meet […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released guidance on mobile medical applications to inform manufacturers and distributors which applications would require review and approval by the agency. It seeks public comment on the document through Oct. 19. According to its draft guidelines made public on July 19, the agency would regulate a small group […]

IBM is working with the Coriell Institute for Medical Research to help the biobank operate the IT systems for its cryogenic freezers and better manage the 4.5 million samples of personalized genetic data. Founded in 1953, Coriell is a nonprofit biomedical research institution and the largest biobank of human living cells. It runs the Coriell […]

Microsoft says it will enable users of the soon-to-be-defunct Google Health service to transfer their data to Microsoft’s HealthVault PHR (personal health record) platform using the federal government’s Direct Project messaging protocols. The Direct Project is the Obama administration’s effort to provide a simple and secure way for people to exchange authenticated, encrypted health information […]

Insurance company EmblemHealth, which offers the HIP Health Plan of NY and GHI (Group Health Incorporated) to 2.9 million people in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, has built several mobile health applications using the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud platform. Azure allows companies to build, host and scale applications while storing data in Microsoft’s data […]

GE Healthcare has launched Centricity Practice 10, a new version of the company’s practice-management software that allows physicians to monitor their progress toward qualifying for government financial incentives on meaningful use of EHRs (electronic health records).CPS 10 is the only EHR and practice-management application that incorporates integrated quality reporting metrics, the company claims.With EHR and […]

Health care software developer ClearPractice has introduced a new software as a service (SaaS) health care practice-management suite, called Eden, for the Mac, iPhone and iPad. Eden is said to be the first full-featured medical-practice platform in the cloud, according to ClearPractice, a Web-based provider of practice management, electronic prescribing and personal health record (PHR […]

Panasonic Solutions has introduced a new rugged handheld tablet, the Toughbook H2, for first responders, hospital clinicians and field workers. Panasonic Solutions is the division of Panasonic for government and commercial enterprises. This latest Toughbook features a second-generation Intel Core i5-2557M vPro processor, which operates at 1.7GHz (with Turbo Boost, up to 2.7GHz) to deliver […]

The Department of Veterans Affairs has revealed plans to allow clinicians in the department’s health facilities to use additional mobile devices such as iPhones, iPads and Android devices to exchange email and access EHRs (electronic health records). Clinicians would be allowed to use the mobile devices by Oct. 1, Roger Baker, the VA’s CIO and […]