Brian T. Horowitz

General Dynamics Itronix has unveiled a new rugged notebook, the GD8200, to allow law enforcement officers, military personnel and public safety personnel to stay connected in harsh working environments. Itronix is the rugged laptop division of General Dynamics, the U.S. government and defense contractor that manufactures aircraft, ships, military armament and IT equipment. The company’s […]

Along with the nonprofit organization PING (Positive Innovation for the Next Generation), Hewlett-Packard has announced it will use its webOS mobile operating system to bolster surveillance of malaria outbreaks in Botswana. CHAI (the Clinton Health Access Initiative) and mobile network provider MASCOM are also collaborating on the effort, announced on June 6. MASCOM provides the […]

The Ponemon Institute, a research firm that advises organizations on data security and privacy, has released a report revealing that each hospital loses an average $2 million a year in productivity when clinicians can’t access electronic health records (EHRs).Imprivata, an SSO (single sign-on) and access-management provider, sponsored the report.For the survey “How Single Sign-On Is […]

After the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer issued a warning of a heightened risk of a type of brain cancer from heavy use of mobile phones, wireless industry experts have claimed that the research to date was not substantive enough to support the report’s conclusion. From May 24 to 31, 31 […]

IBM has announced an expansion of its Analytics Solutions Center, in Dallas, to connect medical data to mobile EHRs using natural-language processing and technology similar to that used with its Watson supercomputer. As part of the center’s expansion, IBM will incorporate Watson-like analytics capabilities along with clinical voice recognition from Nuance Communications to link with […]

Although health care organizations have taken small steps toward using cloud-based applications, the industry has been slow to adopt a comprehensive cloud computing strategy, according to the new Cloud Computing Tracking Poll by IT services provider CDW. For this survey, CDW interviewed 1,200 IT professionals in the health care, government and education markets. The goal […]

GE Healthcare and Thomson Reuters have announced an agreement to link claims data on patient outcomes from Reuters’ MarketScan Research Databases with electronic health records data from GE to gain insight on how treatment methods affect different patient populations. The MarketScan Research Databases hold claims and prescription data, while GE’s EHR database stores real-world clinical […]

The health care IT industry will grow 24 percent from 2012 to 2014 and increase its spending by $40 billion through the end of 2011, according to the report U.S. Healthcare IT Market Analysis by RNCOS, a global research firm based in India. Currently, about $80 billion a year is already spent on health care […]

1950s: Fighting Polio with Punch Cards In the 1920s, IBM developed a punch card, called the IBM Computer Card, as the result of a challenge by its president at the time, Thomas Watson Sr., to two inventors, Clair D. Lake and J. Royden Peirce. In the 1950s, the punch card would then be used to […]

Doctors, researchers and clinicians at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital are using the Saba Centra software as a service online-collaboration platform to hold online conferences with fellow doctors in areas such as South Africa, China and Nepal. Massachusetts General is a teaching affiliate of the Harvard School of Medicine. The Harvard University Center for […]

MacPractice, a developer of practice-management and clinical software for Apple devices, has released an application for the iPad, called Clipboard, to streamline patient registration. Based in Lincoln, Neb., MacPractice offers practice-management applications for the Mac, iPhone and iPad in four separate versions: MD for physicians, DDS for dentists, DC for chiropractors and 20/20 for eye […]

ACS, a Xerox unit that provides IT technology services, has expanded the number of Medicare plans it offers in its My Medicare Advocate Web portal to include plans from insurers Humana and WellPoint. My Medicare Advocate combines simple online decision tools with a call-center service to allow both retirees and employers to navigate health plans. […]