Brian T. Horowitz

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 […]

People in the United States with chronic conditions or rare diseases are turning to family, friends and other patients online for support, but when seeking advice from health professionals they’re staying mostly offline, according to a report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project nonprofit research firm. Although 23 percent of Internet users suffering […]

Biometrics firms Bio-key International and Lumidigm have joined to help nonprofit Genesis HealthCare System in Zanesville, Ohio, add two-factor fingerprint biometrics to its electronic health record and e-prescribing platforms. Bio-key will provide its biometrics identification software to Genesis facilities, while Lumidigm will contribute its Mercury fingerprint reader. “As a result of our testing, we determined […]