Brian T. Horowitz

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 […]

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 […]