Brian T. Horowitz

Dell has rolled out its Mobile Clinical Computing platform, which runs Meditech’s electronic health record applications, as well as VMware’s Sphere and View virtual desktop infrastructure. Dell will provide hardware such as laptops or tablets for the MCC platform, while its partners provide the software, virtualization and security technology. Meditech has about a 30 percent […]

The nonprofit Family Planning Council in Philadelphia has reported that a USB flash drive containing information on 70,000 patients was stolen in December and has not been recovered. The council provides funding to Philadelphia-area health care organizations offering family planning and reproductive health services such as HIV and STD screening, cancer screening and teen pregnancy […]

Researchers at IBM and the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore have taken some of the chemicals used to create chips and servers to build polymers that can detect and destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria and infectious diseases such as staph infections or MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). The Singapore institute performs research on how to use […]

Verizon and Medfx have successfully implemented a pilot project on diabetes care that integrates the protocols and standards of two government initiatives in health care information sharing: the Direct Project and the NWHIN (Nationwide Health Information Network) Exchange. The Direct Project is an ONC(Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology) program to deliver […]

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. […]