Brian T. Horowitz

Electronic medical records, or EMRs, are the top priority for IT professionals working in the health care industry, according to a new survey by Embarcadero Technologies, a San Francisco-based application development and database management firm. The study also found that for IT pros, meeting the challenges of working with data warehouses and health care information […]

Following the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ July announcement of requirements for “meaningful use” of electronic health records, GE Healthcare is rolling out a version of its Centricity Enterprise application that incorporates these objectives. Centricity allows enterprises keep track of patient flow and manage a practice’s revenue cycle. Centricity Enterprise 6.9, which GE […]

A Massachusetts hospital is under scrutiny after hundreds of thousands of patient and employee records went missing earlier this year. The missing files underscore the problems health care providers face when balancing patient privacy and the need to store massive amounts of data, especially as new federal rules for electronic health records come into play. […]

IBM is investing $100 million over the next three years to boost its efforts in medical research. The company will hire medical doctors, nurses, clinicians, social scientists and engineers to work alongside more than 100 of its IT researchers, IBM announced July 15. The IT giant is active in areas such as DNA sequencing and […]

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released final rules on how health care providers can qualify for up to $27 billion in incentives to implement electronic medical records beginning in 2011. The health care industry continues to mull over an 864-page document on “meaningful use” rules from the department’s CMS (Centers for […]

Verizon Business, a division of Verizon Communications, plans to simplify management of electronic medical records by offering a cloud platform to store patient records in a standard format. The Verizon Health Information Exchange, announced July 14, will be able to translate data from 14 to 18 major health care standards using the Oracle Healthcare Transaction […]

Hewlett-Packard is rolling out its EHReady program, a full-service electronic medical records package designed to make it easier for health care facilities to adopt the practice of electronic records storage. EHReady will also help health care organizations take advantage of federal stimulus benefits. EHReady, which HP officially announced July 13, will make hardware such as […]

IBM and the University of Missouri have announced an initiative to collaborate on a research cloud computing platform across the Midwest in which researchers will be able to share data on genomic sequences. Along with MU’s current IT hardware infrastructure, IBM iDataPlex high-performance systems will significantly accelerate the process of DNA sequencing and analysis of […]

Health management tools are among 17 new mobile applications that are available on the General Services Administration’s newly revamped USA.gov Website. USA.gov, officially relaunched on July 2, is a central portal for all federal government entities operated by GSA, which is the government agency that manages the basic business operations of the U.S. government, such […]

A team of UCLA researchers is headed to Africa this summer for a series of experiments on a new type of lensless microscope that can work with either a mobile device, such as a smartphone, or a PC. The research group is led by Aydogan Ozcan of UCLA’s California NanoSystems Institute. The idea behind the […]

SoloHealth, a company focused on health education and prevention, plans to place self-service health kiosks in major retail stores to allow people to test themselves for conditions such as diabetes, obesity and hypertension, and to check their vision and hearing. Patients will then receive recommendations for follow-up care. The company announced on June 17 that […]

IBM and Roche, a pharmaceutical and diagnostics company based in Basel, Switzerland, are working together to fine-tune a DNA decoding process that could lead to faster and more affordable sequencing and personalized medication. As part of the July 1 agreement, Roche’s subsidiary, 454 Life Sciences, will market and distribute future products based on IBM’s DNA […]