Brian T. Horowitz

Xerox unit ACS has acquired clinical surveillance software specialist CredenceHealth to boost its ability to monitor health care data trends in real time. Terms of the March 21 deal were not disclosed. The acquisition will integrate all CredenceHealth products, services and employees as part of ACS. The deal is expected to be completed by April […]

Nvidia has introduced its Quadro 2000D parallel-computing graphics platform, which will allow medical professionals to obtain more timely diagnoses using medical images. The $599 2000D is built on the Nvidia CUDA (code-named Fermi) parallel-computing architecture, which all of the company’s GPUs now incorporate. Compared with the previous generation of Nvidia GPUs, Fermi has more than […]

Children’s Hospital Central California plans to deploy the newly released VMware View Client for iPad to allow clinicians and staff to stay connected to their virtual Windows desktops anywhere in the building. Located in Madera, Calif., Children’s Hospital Central California is one of the 10 largest pediatric hospitals in the country. VMware View is the […]

IBM has gone live in Manitoba, Canada, with the initial phase of what it says will be the country’s first full province to connect to an EHR plaform. A key component of the $22.5 million project is the eChart Manitoba application from EHR provider dbMotion. With a single log-on from any PC, clinicians can access […]

Americans don’t trust electronic health records, but they trust their doctors, CDW Healthcare, a provider of technology infrastructure for the health care industry, uncovers in a new survey. For its report “Elevated Heart Rates: EHR and IT Security,” CDW interviewed 1,000 Americans who have been seen in a health care facility in the last 18 […]

Health Net, a provider of health insurance to about 6 million people across the United States, has come under fire for reporting the loss of nine server drives at its data center in Rancho Cordova, Calif., nearly two months after it occurred. More than 2 million Health Net members, employees and health care providers may […]

Doctors are more likely to use natural, or organic, search and direct navigation to find their online health resources compared with paid search listings, a report by Web analytics and research firm comScore reveals. Marketers buy paid search listings, which appear in a blue or yellow background at the top of Google search results, while […]

With Apple launching itsiPad 2 on March 11, Aptilon, an online marketing firm in Montreal, has released the results of a survey revealing that 79 percent of physicians preferred the iPad, while 12 percent would go for a Windows-based tablet and 9 percent for an Android model. In addition, about 38 percent of physicians plan […]

IBM has announced that BJC Healthcare and the Washington University School of Medicine Center for Biometrics will use its IBM Content Analytics application to help researchers extract unstructured medical data from 50 million documents. BJC Healthcare is a nonprofit health system serving the St. Louis, southern Illinois and mid-Missouri areas. The WUSM (Washington University School […]

The Henry Ford Health System in Detroit has started notifying by postal mail 2,777 patients affected by a missing flash drive. The nonprofit health system, founded in 1915 by auto pioneer Henry Ford, serves 102,000 patients annually. The Henry Ford Health System on Feb. 8 began its investigation of the Jan. 31 security breach to […]

The Health Research Institute of consulting firm (PwC) PriceWaterhouseCoopers has released a new report called “Putting Patients Into ‘Meaningful Use’” that says hospitals need to take steps to incorporate patient feedback for meaningful use implementation to be worth the investment. PwC’s Health Research Institute provides analysis on various issues affecting the health care industry. HHS […]

Hewlett-Packard’s Specialty Printing Systems division has unveiled a High-Performance Digital Dispensing System based on its inkjet technology that will enable biologists to develop and test medications at more precise dosages than traditional analog methods to combat illnesses. HP Specialty Printing Systems licenses thermal inkjet technology to allow companies to integrate the technology into their industrial […]