Nathan Eddy

Private communications firm Silent Circle announced the expansion of Out-Circle Calling (OCC) encrypted hybrid calling that enables the company’s members to make and receive encrypted, private voice calls through the Silent Phone service to non-Silent Circle subscribers in 79 total countries. Subscribers who enroll in Silent Circle’s encrypted international calling plans will be given unique […]

The biggest gains to patient safety could be obtained by retooling Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) certification program to require more rigorous interoperability testing, according to comments jointly released by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS). The comments […]

While the PC market’s installed base has been declining as consumers switch to tablets and smartphones for entertainment and social media consumption, worldwide PC shipments experienced flat growth in the second quarter of 2014 after eight quarters of decline, according to IT research firm Gartner. In the U.S. market, PC shipments totaled 15.9 million units […]

One-quarter of those surveyed worldwide watch TV content daily on a PC, laptop, tablet or mobile device, according to a report from research consultancy TNS. This amount rises to one-third in mainland China and Singapore and 32 percent in Hong Kong, where phablets—mobile devices that fill in the gap between smartphones and tablets–are increasingly popular. […]

Validic, a company that collects data from wearable health care-related devices and apps and sends that data to health care organizations and other parties, has acquired Silicon Valley-based technology company Infometers, which specializes in connecting remote health care monitoring devices to the health care system. Through the acquisition, Validic established a Silicon Valley office in […]

More than 1.75 billion mobile phone users will have used their devices for banking purposes by the end of 2019, compared to 800 million this year, according to a report from Juniper Research. Emerging countries such as China, India and Bangladesh also witnessed significant growth in the past 12 months, the study found. The report […]

The overall computerized physician order entry (CPOE) market is expected to see growth of 6.5 percent from $938.4 million in 2013 to nearly $1.3 billion in 2018, according to a report from MicroMarket Monitor. The key players in the market include Cerner Corporation, Allscripts, Epic Systems, McKesson Corporation, GE Healthcare, Athenahealth, Meditech, Zynx Health, Emdeon, […]

Enterprise hosting, managed applications, managed messaging and managed cloud services provider NaviSite, a subsidiary of Time Warner Cable, announced an enterprise mobility management (EMM) platform designed to enhance data security while simplifying the management of mobile devices. Mobile device management enables access to enterprise assets, encrypts sensitive data, and enforces compliance and security standards, while […]

Technology giants Intel, Samsung, Dell and three other firms announced a partnership to establish an industry consortium focused on improving interoperability and defining the connectivity requirements for the billions of devices that will make up the Internet of things (IoT). The concept of IoT is generally described as a wired or wireless network connecting devices, […]

Smart Vision Labs and the SUNY College of Optometry, GeriJoy and Pace University, and Urgent Software and Mount Sinai Health System were among the winning partnerships in the second annual Pilot Health Tech NYC. The program, sponsored by the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and Health 2.0, is designed to increase innovation and […]

The worldwide public cloud services market reached a size of $45.7 billion in 2013, and the market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23 percent until 2018, according to a report from IT research firm IDC. In IDC’s software taxonomy, the total public cloud services market comprises three major […]

Nearly three-quarters (71 percent) of data scientists said big data had made their analytics more difficult and data variety, not volume, was to blame, according to a survey of 111 data scientists from computational database management system designer Paradigm4. The survey results indicated that it is the diverse types of data, not the volume, that’s […]