Brian T. Horowitz

Leadership Directories, a longtime compiler of listings on government leaders, has branched out into health care with Health Focus, its first online database covering a particular industry. Health Focus holds information on 150,000 leaders and 8,000 organizations across the U.S. health care industry, including government, hospital systems, medical schools and trade associations. Known for its […]

Despite the exit of Google from the personal health record market, the consumer version of electronic health records may have a future as part of an overall health care IT strategy, according to a report by research firm Frost & Sullivan. Increasing use of EHRs (electronic health records) by providers and payers along with continued […]

Health care insurer WellPoint has agreed to pay the Indiana attorney general’s office $100,000 for failing to notify officials within a reasonable amount of time of a data breach affecting 32,000 customers. Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller filed a lawsuit against WellPoint on Oct. 29 for violating two Indiana notification laws. Each one carried a […]

AT&T and health insurer HCSC have launched a pilot project internally that allows diabetic patients at both companies to monitor their blood sugar levels using WellDoc’s DiabetesManager application. DiabetesManager is a diabetes-management application that allows patients and caregivers to monitor care using mobile devices. A select number of diabetic employees at HCSC as well as […]

General Dynamics Itronix has unveiled its GD3015 tablet PC, a semi-rugged computer that hits the middle point between consumer tablets and heavier fully ruggedized notebooks. Itronix is the rugged mobile technology division of General Dynamics, a manufacturer of aircraft, ships, military armament and IT equipment for the government and military. The GD3015 tablet is geared […]

Online startup MeYou Health has a noble mission: to challenge gamers to maintain daily health rituals the company hopes they’ll continue for the rest of their lives. Formed in September 2009, MeYou Health develops games using open-source technology. MeYou Health is a division of Healthways, a wellness application developer. Daily Challenge, launched in September 2010, […]

Devices smaller than a cell phone will allow people to monitor their health within the next five years and consumers will be willing to pay for them, according to a new study by IBM’s Institute for Business Value. The institute performs studies for senior executives on major public and private sector issues. For its report […]

Global IT outsourcing firm Wipro Technologies has introduced its secure cloud-based Clinical Collaboration Portal that it says can reduce clinical drug trial time by 20 to 30 percent. The Clinical Collaboration Portal is a mixture of clinical data capture, electronic data management and trial management. Researchers can also use the portal to order trial equipment. […]

As Google prepares to shut down Google Health, its personal-health-record portal, experts cite consumers’ weak interest in entering their own health data and a lack of faith in the services’ privacy as factors leading to the portal’s demise. PHRs are health-record databases that consumers manage on their own, in contrast to EHRs (electronic health records), […]

AT&T has launched MIIM (Medical Imaging and Information Management), a pilot cloud project that allows physicians to store, view and share medical images such as X-rays and MRIs in the cloud. In the pilot phase, AT&T is deploying the cloud service at Baptist Health System in Alabama andHenry Ford Health System in Detroit. It will […]

With adoption of mobile technology growing in health care, a software company called Voalte is introducing an iPhone messaging application in several hospitals across the United States designed to improve communications among patients, nurses and clinicians. Voalte One for iPhone is a unified communications application that allows nurses and clinicians to connect through voice, alarm, […]

General Dynamics Itronix, a maker of mobile products for harsh working conditions, has announced its latest rugged notebook, the GD2000 UMPC (ultramobile PC). UMPCs are the size of PDAs and can be carried in one hand but have the features of full-size laptops. The GD2000 is equipped with a 1.2GHz Intel Celeron ULV722 Core Solo […]