Brian T. Horowitz

With a large distance separating U.S. veterans from the proper medical care they need, the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) is a major adopter of mobile health technology. The House Veterans Affairs Health Subcommittee held a hearing on June 24 in which military officers and health care IT experts discussed the latest innovations in […]

Having trouble remembering to take your pills? According to preliminary results from a study by the Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners HealthCare, wireless electronic pill bottle caps may be able to help. The telehealth provider announced the results of a study on June 23 that showed a 27 percent increase in medication […]

You may be able to dread cardiovascular tests a little less. A software-based medical technique from General Electric called Adaptive Statistical Iterative Reconstruction, or ASIR, has led to a lower amount of radiation in computed tomography (CT) colonography tests while maintaining accurate results, according to an article appearing in the American Journal of Roentgenology, published […]

Motion Computing on June 22 rolled out its latest Tablet PC, the J3500, a unit geared toward the health care industry as well as other verticals such as construction that require rugged mobile devices for field service applications. The rugged design of the J3500 makes it suitable for harsher environments, such as a hospital where […]

The health care industry is cutting the wires in droves. ABI Research reported on June 22 that WiFi use in the health care industry has grown at more than 60 percent during the past 12 months in wireless local area network and WiFi RTLS (Real-Time Locations Systems) deployments. In the last year growth in cellular […]

Health care provider Humana is targeting the mobile health market with its first iPhone application. Produced with Persuasive Games, the $2.99 Colorfall application is now available in the iPhone App Store and aims to keep the mind sharp. It involves fast thinking to arrange the colors of the rainbow and allows players to shoot iPhone […]

Chip manufacturer Intel and health insurance provider Aetna say the preliminary results of a recent field study found that heart failure patients benefited from working with a computerized remote health management system. In a joint study, 164 out of 315 Aetna Medicare subjects suffering from chronic heart failure (CHF) were able to avoid some hospital […]

You may be hearing from Walgreens often in your SMS inbox. The giant Deerfield, Ill.-based retailer and pharmacy, which recently bought New York chain Duane Reade, announced on June 15 that it will text customers to notify them when they can pick up their prescriptions.Customers can sign up for the text alerts at Walgreen’s mobile […]

On June 15, GE Health Care rolled out a software-as-a-service addition to its Centricity enterprise medical-industry platform that offers automated Web-based “plug and play” for physicians to maintain electronic medical records and manage their practice digitally. GE planned to demonstrate the service at a roundtable event at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., coinciding […]

Tapping the unused cycle time of 1.5 million PCs donated by hundreds of thousands of volunteers in more than 80 countries, the Help Conquer Cancer Project working with the IBM-supported World Community Grid has achieved a breakthrough in automating the process of finding potentially cancer-causing proteins. The technology allows the viewing of six times as […]