Brian T. Horowitz

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 […]

Sprint has launched its M2M Command Center, a secure Web portal to allow enterprises to control thousands of wireless devices used in industries such as health care, transportation and energy management. Health care will be the primary industry using Command Center, as health agencies will be able to track wireless devices that medical patients use […]

Sony Ericsson has introduced the Xperia Active Android smartphone, a compact and water-resistant phone designed for personal fitness and for monitoring health conditions. The Xperia Active integrates Dynastream Innovations’ Ant+ technology to allow users to monitor their heart rates on screen while working out. Ant is a 2.4GHz ultralow-power wireless networking protocol for applications such […]

Adobe says its new Digital Enterprise Platform can enable the health care industry to create HIXs (health insurance exchanges), which are open Web-based marketplaces that allow people to shop for and buy health care plans. Introduced June 20, the Digital Enterprise Platform is a modular, open-standards infrastructure for running applications using social networking, Web, mobile […]

Oracle has rolled out a new cloud platform that will provide a unified view of multiple trials being conducted across drug research and development trial systems. Health Sciences Trial Center, announced on June 20, provides a single console to allow study managers to maximize their productivity, Oracle reports. The researchers will also be able to […]