Brian T. Horowitz

AT&T and WellDoc will begin a test phase of a partnership in mobile health, offering a diabetes management application to a sample of AT&T employees in 2011. Under the partnership, AT&T plans to market and sell WellDoc’s mobile health products from end to end to insurance payers, self-insured employers and disease-management organizations, the carrier reports. […]

Xerox’s Affiliated Computer Services IT outsourcing unit has acquired pharmaceutical teleservices company TMS Health from Palm Beach Capital, a private equity company, Xerox has announced. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. TMS, a teleservices company based in Boca Raton, Fla., will now become part of ACS, and TMS CEO Guy Amato will remain in […]

GE Healthcare has announced that it has opened up the architecture of its Centricity EHR (electronic medical record) software to allow physicians at various stages of care-whether it’s a primary care physician, an assisted living facility or a specialist-to share information using the same EHR product, whether it’s by GE or another vendor. In early […]

Verizon Business has announced an expansion of its Medical Data Exchange Web platform to incorporate a larger variety of data, more providers and a new name for its exchange consortium. Since the exchange was first launched in March, Verizon has allowed for dictated notes to be shared from transcriptionist to physician and from physician to […]

IBM and Nuance Communications have announced a partnership in speech recognition to direct physician-dictated text into the structured fields of an EHR (electronic health record). Nuance is the maker of the Dragon speech-recognition software, which in addition to health care and other industries is used in the White House and Defense Department. According to Peter […]

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services has received a $26 million order to continue its IT support for the Department of Health and Human Services’ CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) division. Under the contract announced Oct. 13, HP will maintain an IDR (Integrated Data Repository) for CMS and provide services to improve the accuracy of Medicare […]

AT&T has announced plans to carry eCardio Diagnostics’ cardiac arrhythmia-monitoring mobile devices on its wireless network to allow physicians to monitor patients’ heartbeats in real time. The eCardio M2M (machine-to-machine) monitor allows heart patients to recuperate at home from arrhythmia, or irregular heartbeats, rather than endure a long stay in the hospital. An arrhythmia, or […]

WebMD, a respected online resource for health news and tips, introduced an enhanced version of its mobile app for the iPhone and iPad on Oct. 8 at the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco, according to WebMD company spokesperson Adam Grossberg. In a demonstration, WebMD’s CEO Wayne Gattinella showed how the mobile app can access […]

The Obama administration’s White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has formally unveiled a Web tool that will enable seniors and veterans to download their PHRs (personal health records) to a PC or storage device and maintain control over information sharing with health care providers, according to a White House blog post. At a […]

At the Citrix Synergy conference on Oct. 6 in Berlin, global IT provider Wipro Technologies announced its Wipro desktop-as-a-service system for vertical markets such as health care, education, manufacturing and banking. The DAAS product incorporates Citrix’s XenDesktop virtualization platform and delivery technology along with Microsoft’s VDI Premium suite of infrastructure and management software, which allows […]

Fujitsu is beginning to preview a new type of phone that allows users to collect and share their own medical data. The prototype device, which uses Bluetooth technology to let people share their data, has already been certified by one major health care organization. At the CEATEC (Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies) conference, which started […]

Scott Charney, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of trustworthy computing, is advocating that governments enact legislation that would isolate computers from the public Internet if they aren’t adequately protected by the latest security technology. Speaking at the International Security Solutions Europe (ISSE) Conference, in Berlin, Charney said governments should establish computer security policies modeled after public […]