Brian T. Horowitz

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 […]

The department of neurosurgery at the University of California, Los Angeles, is using big data analytics software from IBM and Excel Medical Electronics to predict rising brain pressure in patients with traumatic brain injuries. In the collaboration announced March 13, the public research university will use IBM InfoSphere Streams and EME BedMasterEX to create data […]

Consumers are embracing virtual health care sessions and storage of health data in the cloud, a new Cisco survey of consumers and health care decision makers revealed. In fact, 74 percent of consumers are willing to participate in remote health sessions, according to the “Cisco Connected Customer Experience Report,” which the company released March 4 […]

Philips Healthcare and Vidyo have partnered to enable remote video monitoring in hospitals to ease the workflow of doctors and clinicians as they manage patient care. The Philips IntelliSpace eCareManager 3.9 platform will incorporate Vidyo’s VidyoRouter, a device that allows a health provider’s telemetry devices to work across a broader range of networks. It enables […]

AT&T is developing a mobile personal emergency response system (MPERS) to help elderly people when they fall. The platform will use GPS functionality and machine-to-machine (M2M) technology to connect patients remotely to medical professionals at monitoring centers. The company is collaborating with Valued Relationships, Inc. (VRI) and Numera on the service. VRI provides telehealth monitoring […]