Brian T. Horowitz

Video-collaboration company Tely Labs has unveiled the TelyMed MTS-100 Mobile Station, a telemedicine cart that allows hospitals and clinics to conference in specialists to evaluate patients remotely. Introduced on May 6 at the American Telemedicine Association conference in Austin, Texas, the plug-and-play MTS-100 combines Tely Labs’ TelyHD video-calling appliance, TelyMed software service and an HDTV […]

Outdated communication technology such as pagers costs hospitals more than $8.3 billion annually due to a loss in productivity and an increase in patient discharge times, a May 7 Ponemon Institute report revealed. Each U.S. hospital loses close to a million dollars because they continue using obsolete equipment, according to the report. Imprivata, a company […]

Doximity, an online network for doctors, has unveiled an iPad app to allow doctors to collaborate in a manner compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) on a larger screen. The company also offers an app for the iPhone and Android. The Retina screen of the iPad has a larger view than […]

Qualcomm Life announced that it has acquired HealthyCircles to provide doctors with a link to data from electronic health records as well as biometric medical devices. The May 5 announcement aligns the HealthyCircles Software as a Service Care Orchestration Engine with Qualcomm Life’s 2net cloud health monitoring platform. The 2net service allows caregivers to view […]

Oracle has expanded its move into pharmaceutical innovation by investing an undisclosed “minor” sum in Proteus Digital Health, a company that has developed ingestible and wearable sensors. Proteus’ sensors are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and classified as medical devices in the United States and Europe. Launched in 2003, the sensor maker […]

The Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF) for Parkinson’s Research has been seeking insights on how mobile data can aid Parkinson’s patients. As part of this effort, the foundation launched a Parkinson’s Challenge in February with a $10,000 prize to encourage use of patient data from smartphones for monitoring and treatment of Parkinson’s. Kaggle.com a crowd-sourcing […]

Poor customer service and bedside manner were the biggest complaints of patients that use online review sites, according to a study by Vanguard Communications, a medical marketing and public relations firm. Surprisingly, the issue of poor medical skills took a backseat to poor customer service and bedside manner, which were concerns for four times the […]

Jawbone, known for its Bluetooth audio devices, has acquired its wearable computing competitor BodyMedia to combine efforts on health and fitness tracking sensors. The New York Times, citing a source close to the April 30 deal, reported the terms to be $110 million. As a combined company, Jawbone and BodyMedia will create “new boundaries” and […]

10 iPhone Apps Designed to Assist the Visually Impaired by Brian T. Horowitz Adobe Reader for iOS Adds VoiceOver and Swiping Controls The free Adobe Reader for iOS has recently been updated with accessibility features, according to Andrew Kirkpatrick, group product manager for accessibility at Adobe Systems. It now integrates VoiceOver and toolbar controls that […]

BodyMedia, manufacturer of consumer fitness armbands, plans to expand the focus of its products from lifestyle to helping consumers manage chronic diseases such as diabetes, sleep disorders or heart conditions. BodyMedia is one of several vendors that offer wearable health and fitness devices, including Fitbit, Fitbug and Jawbone. “Obesity is our first target market where […]

Philips Respironics has launched SleepMapper, an app for iOS and Android that allows patients suffering from obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) to get direction on how to use devices that improve their breathing while sleeping. Philips Respironics is a division of Royal Philips Electronics. Launched on April 24, SleepMapper provides videos and educational materials to guide […]

Intel engineers and OHSU biomedical experts are working on creating a diagram of the human genome to identify the genetic mutations that lead to cancer. The map would provide a better understanding of an individual’s genetic makeup, allowing biomedical engineers to develop personalized cancer treatment that kills only the mutating cells that cause cancer rather […]