Brian T. Horowitz

MidState Medical Center, in Meriden, Conn., has reported the loss of an external hard drive containing information on 93,500 patients. State law enforcement and consumer protection advocates are also investigating this data breach. Built in 1998, MidState Medical Center is an affiliate of Hartford HealthCare and serves central Connecticut. The employee, whom MidState did not […]

AirStrip Technologies has rolled out a cardiology application for Apple’s iPad and iPhone, called AirStrip Cardiology, which allows doctors to access patient heart readings on the go. AirStrip Cardiology draws on a continuous flow of ECG (electrocardiogram) data from GE Healthcare’s Muse Cardiology Information System, a cloud database hospitals use to track and store patients’ […]

Software giant CA Technologies has acquired government IT consulting firm Base Technologies in a move to add consulting expertise to its virtualization, mainframe and cloud-computing offerings for government agencies and health care providers. A major player in virtualization and IT management, CA announced the agreement on April 6. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. […]

With HHS (the Department of Health & Human Services) announcing its Medicare incentive program for ACOs (accountable care organizations), IT vendors will need to modify their health care platforms to take advantage of the potential savings. ACOs are groups of health care companies that join together to coordinate care for Medicare patients and earn incentives […]

CSC, an IT integrator and cloud service provider, is looking to expand its health care, software and research portfolios by acquiring Australia-based iSoft for $188 million. The deal also means that CSC can now offer more IT services to several different markets. The deal, which CSC announced April 1, must now wait for approval from […]

Saint Francis Health System in Tulsa, Okla., has become the latest health care provider to report a major data breach, this one resulting from the theft of a PC containing personal information for 84,000 patients. The theft occurred in a building that formerly housed the Saint Francis Broken Arrow outpatient facility, which closed in 2007. […]

GE Healthcare has introduced an application called Centricity Research to enhance the efficiency of clinical studies, improve research billing compliance, and enable better management of treatment plans and procedures. Centricity is GE’s software platform that reaches all areas of health care IT, including EHRs (electronic health records) as well as pharmaceutical, financial and administrative tools. […]

Even as Microsoft grows stronger on the health care IT front, rumors are circulating that Google may devote less attention to its Google Health PHR (personal health record) portal, according to a Wall Street Journal report. With co-founder Larry Page preparing to take over for Eric Schmidt as CEO on April 4, the WSJ article […]

Oracle has rolled out version 3.1 of its Health Sciences Clinical Development Center application to help standardize, automate and quicken the flow of data during clinical drug trials. Clinical Development Center is a type of clinical data warehouse application, a health care database that stores clinical data from multiple locations. “The Oracle Clinical Development Center […]

From monitoring access to weapons of mass destruction to safeguarding medical data, Mac McMillan has done it all as far as security is concerned. A former director of security at two Defense Department agencies in charge of overseeing inspection of WMDs, McMillan was also an intelligence officer who oversaw the implementation of international arms control […]

Nashville is singing the tune of health care and IT. The Middle Tennessee area has a plethora of IT jobs available, particularly in health care IT, according to the Nashville Technology Council’s Q1 2011 Technology Hiring Trends Report. The council created the report along with Vaco Technology, a technology and finance staffing firm. Nashville can […]

CTIA has redesigned its AccessWireless.org Website to help people with disabilities as well as seniors and their families choose wireless devices. On the site, MMF (The Mobile Manufacturer Forum), a trade association for mobile phone manufacturers, has integrated its GARI (Global Accessibility Reporting Initiative) database into the Find a Phone section to allow consumers to […]