Brian T. Horowitz

AT&T and Autism Speaks plan to hold a hackathon to encourage developers to build apps that help autistic people and raise awareness for the condition. Participants at the hackathon, to be held on April 12-13, will use APIs from AT&T’s mobile platform to develop apps based on ideas crowd-sourced on the Facebook page of Autism […]

Apple iPad Enables Tap-to-Send The Drchrono EHR platform uses the touch-screen capabilities of the iPad to enable “tap-to-send” functionality. Doctors can tap to send videos and articles to patients. Curating Educational Content An algorithm in Drchrono’s platform helps doctors curate educational content after patients check in on the OnPatient personal health record (PHR) iPad app […]

Saving Space for Students and Nurses Lenovo says the ThinkCentre Edge 62z’s 18.5-inch LCD screen is suitable for the tight spaces of nursing stations and school computer labs. The 18.5-inch LCD could save more than 65 percent of the space a 20-inch monitor would take up, according to the company. Mounting the ThinkCentre on a […]

The market for health information exchanges is consolidating, as Caradigm announces plans to sell an HIE platform from Orion Health and discontinue development of its own. Caradigm is a 50/50 joint venture of GE Healthcare and Microsoft. As part of the March 27 announcement, Orion Health said it will develop apps on the Caradigm Intelligence […]

Mihills Webb Medical, a small provider practice in Southlake, Texas, has adopted cloud-based Microsoft Office 365 to make use of the platform’s secure-messaging features to boost staff communication and morale. Office 365 is the cloud-based version of the productivity platform that includes Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Lync and SharePoint. A family physician practice, Mihills Webb […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration plans to regulate medical devices connected to smartphones, but consumer devices such as the iPhone and app stores like iTunes and Google Drive will remain clear of oversight, an FDA official told the House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on March 21. “[The] FDA seeks to strike […]

With medication prices rising, Castlight Health is looking to keep the health care industry transparent by introducing a new Pharmacy app that allows consumers to shop for the best prices on medications. The pharmacy app uses big data logic to crunch medical claims and find ways patients can save money on prescriptions, Ethan Prater, vice […]

Verizon has launched a fleet-management platform to provide ambulances and utility vehicles with telematics and to allow organizations to better keep track of their locations using GPS. The new platform incorporates telematics technology from Hughes Telematics, which Verizon acquired in June 2012. Networkfleet incorporates its 5200 and 5500 in-vehicle tracking devices, which enable GPS tracking […]

Viewing Radiology Images Claron Technology’s Nil app takes advantage of the BlackBerry 10 platform’s multi-touch capabilities to allow physicians to swipe through X-rays, CT scans, Magnetic Resonance and echocardiogram images (shown here). The free app pulls the medical images from Claron’s NilCloud or a medical facility’s Nil server. It complements access to picture archiving and […]

Microsoft has announced the launch of a Windows 8 app for its HealthVault personal health record platform. The app will allow users to view a streamlined version of HealthVault on Surface tablets, laptops and desktops. HealthVault allows users to compile data on vital signs as well as keep track of fitness goals. For Windows 8, […]

Delivering More Accurate, Timely Information The command and control techniques of virtual assistants will allow doctors to use dialogue to pull up important information in an EHR, such as a patient’s lab results. Natural-language processing in the cloud makes this possible, Petro noted. Doctors can say “Pull up patient John Doe” or “Let me see […]

Nearly 80 percent of health care CEOs plan to invest in IT in 2013, but they’re not finding the workers they need, according to a new report by PwC’s Health Research Institute. More than 51 percent worry that their staffs are unable to keep pace with technology change, according to the PwC report “Solving the […]