Nathan Eddy

Media and information giant Hearst announced the creation of Hearst Health, a brand that encompasses its health care information businesses, giving the company a presence across the clinical, pharmacy, home and hospice care, and health insurance markets. Internationally, the Hearst Health network also includes Map of Medicine, a Web-based visual representation of evidence-based patient care […]

Business productivity solutions provider Accellion announced the launch of Kiteworks by Accellion, a mobile-first solution with a three-tier architecture designed to help people work securely wherever they are. The separate layers offer deployment options for enhanced security, such as putting the Web layer in the DMZ for external users, while keeping the application and data […]

Henry Ford Health System venture development business unit Henry Ford Innovations has been awarded a $3 million, three-year grant from the William Davidson Foundation to establish the William Davidson Center for Entrepreneurs in Digital Health. The Davidson Center will incubate new technologies and companies focused on the intersection of health care and IT, create future […]

More than four in 10 (44 percent) online U.S. consumers owned tablets as of December 2013, an increase of six percentage points from December 2012 (38 percent), according to a semi-annual report released by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) that examines trend information on consumer behavior and sentiment regarding tablet computers. Although revenue growth has […]

In the worldwide mobile phone market (inclusive of smartphones), vendors shipped 1.8 billion units, up 4.8 percent from the 1.7 billion units shipped 2012, with Samsung the dominant manufacturer, according to IT research firm IDC. The worldwide smartphone market reached yet another milestone, having shipped more than 1 billion units in a single year for […]

Samsung Electronics and Apple together consumed $53.7 billion of semiconductors in 2013, an increase of $7.7 billion from 2012, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. However, the report noted that in order to keep growing, semiconductor vendors need to gain opportunities by accelerating the device commoditization with their intellectual properties and patent […]

Integrated health care transparency software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions specialist HealthSparq announced that it has acquired ClarusHealth Solutions, a health care provider search vendor. Through its Consumer Guidance Platform, Clarus integrates provider search, quality, treatment cost and health information into a single online solution, enabling health plan members and employees to access information in context. The company […]

While many small and midsize businesses (SMBs) have been quick to embrace free postings on social media networks, a quarter of those active on social networks expect to spend more money to advertise on sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter in 2014, according to a report from Ad-ology Research. The company’s Small Business Marketing Forecast […]

Mobile applications will be downloaded more than 268 billion times by 2017, generating revenue of more than $77 billion and making apps one of the most popular computing tools for users across the globe, according to a report by IT research firm Gartner. The report noted businesses and their brands are already using mobile apps […]

Two out of three big business brands are planning to increase their focus and investment in engaging small to medium-size business (SMB) customers over the next 12 to 36 months, according to a study from the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council and Penton, a business information services company. While half of respondents said they have […]

Nonverbal cues may get overlooked and affect doctors’ ability to pay attention and communicate with patients when physicians spend too much time looking at the computer screen in the exam according to a Northwestern Medicine study. Using video cameras, Northwestern scientists recorded 100 doctor-patient visits in which doctors used computers to access electronic health records […]

The unemployment rate for technology professionals fell to 3.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2013 from 3.9 percent in the preceding quarter, according to the latest jobs report from Web-based tech jobs portal Dice. For the year, the tech unemployment rate averaged 3.5 percent, edging down slightly from the year before. In Dice’s recent […]