Brian T. Horowitz

On Jan. 8 at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, HealthSpot has launched a walk-in telehealth station that will allow patients to take medical readings and communicate remotely with a doctor. The HealthSpot Station allows board-certified doctors to conduct remote diagnosis and treatment using high-definition videoconferencing and digital medical devices. Pharmacies are a […]

CareCloud, which offers cloud-based electronic health record and practice management software, is collaborating with QuantiaMD to use the latter’s community of physicians to communicate with them on how they can best manage their practices. Under the partnership announced on Jan. 8, the two companies will collect insight from 5,000 physician members in QuantiaMD’s community to […]

Cloud-based health IT software company Athenahealth has acquired Epocrates, a developer of mobile reference apps doctors use at the point of care. Athenahealth announced Jan. 7 that it had agreed to pay $11.75 per share, or approximately $293 million, to acquire Epocrates. Athenahealth expects the sale to close in the second quarter of 2013. Epocrates […]

Lexmark International continues its series of acquisitions tied to the health care space by purchasing Acuo Technologies, a medical image archive company. Acuo offers a Universal Clinical Platform that provides vendor-neutral access to medical image archives. A vendor-neutral archive can consolidate images from multiple vendors’ platforms. The Universal Clinical Platform allows doctors to capture and […]

As the federal government prepares to step in and build health insurance exchanges (HIXes) for those states that decline to implement them under the Affordable Care Act, preventing fraud in the exchanges will be a challenge for the health care IT industry. Following the re-election of President Obama, either the states or the Centers for […]

Despite the security concerns of IT managers, in 2013 health care professionals will continue to adopt their own smartphones and tablets in health care as the bring your own device phenomenon continues to grow, said health care IT experts. BYOD issues have included privacy, security, help desk challenges, limited data-entry capabilities and “hidden licensing costs […]

Qualcomm Life and Valued Relationships are installing a remote-monitoring service called 2net for Tri-City Medical Center that will allow patients to stay connected to health care professionals at home following a hospital stay. Formed by Qualcomm in December 2011, Qualcomm Life is a division of the mobile phone chipmaker focused on remote health management. TCMC […]

Drchrono has announced that it has redesigned its OnPatient application as a personal health record portal as Google Health shuts down access as of Jan. 1, 2013. The company offers an electronic health record (EHR) application for the iPad. With OnPatient, Drchrono will now be able to link both its physician EHR applications and a […]

U.S. doctors are ahead of European doctors in smartphone usage, according to a new report by EPG Health Media, a research firm and educational publisher. In 2012, 91 percent of doctors in the United States owned smartphones, compared with 81 percent in Europe, the study reported. U.S. smartphone use by doctors also grew from 81 […]

Aetna Passage On Dec. 3 at the mHealth Summit in National Harbor, Md., Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini introduced Passage, a fitness application that allows users to travel the world virtually while they exercise. The app was developed with Microsoft for Windows 8 and allows users to sync their workouts with a route in cities such […]