Brian T. Horowitz

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 […]