Brian T. Horowitz

AT&T has launched a cloud patient-monitoring service that will help doctors manage patients’ chronic diseases through live video chat. Introduced Dec. 4, the remote-patient-monitoring (RPM) platform is built on an Ericsson cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) infrastructure. Ericsson’s Remote Patient Monitoring System uses Bluetooth devices and medical sensors to transmit patients’ vital signs remotely […]

Mobile technology company Diversinet has launched the MobiHealth Wallet, an application that provides a way for patients to download their personal health records to their smartphones using the federal Blue Button data automation tool so they can share them with their doctors. Diversinet announced the MobiHealth Wallet at the mHealth Summit in National Harbor, Md., […]

Startup mobile app developer Anzu has launched a cloud-based digital knowledge platform for physicians on the iPad, called AnzuMedical. The digital knowledge platform allows doctors to access medical specialty information on the Apple tablet. Launched Nov. 29, AnzuMedical provides access to research journals, videos and clinical cases. Based in Phoenix, Anzu is targeting medical societies […]

Big data is being used to better understand how diseases affect human populations. Archimedes, an organization that crafts mathematical models of human diseases and interventions, is using the open-source Hadoop platform and Univa’s Grid Engine distributed resource-management platform to power its mathematical modeling software. Univa is a provider of automation and management software for computational […]

Deploy Advanced Network Monitoring To combat cyber-security threats, health care organizations should deploy advanced network monitoring tools containing software algorithms and rules that can detect when patient health information is compromised, Jared Rhoads, senior research specialist at CSC, an IT services provider, told eWEEK. The algorithms can flag a threat so that an information security […]

Denmark-based pharmaceutical firm Novo Nordisk has announced a mobile app called HemaGo that enables hemophilia patients to keep track of their bleeding episodes. Hemophilia is a genetic disorder in which the blood fails to clot normally. People with hemophilia are constantly at risk from uncontrolled bleeding from the slightest injury without medication and constant monitoring. […]

A Patient Care Dashboard Rounds features a dashboard that shows grids of both patients and the care team. Icons allow doctors to open screens to enter notes or view patient charts. They can check directions to get to a patient around the hospital, as well as see diagnoses, medications and links to interact with other […]

Polycom has announced an effort by the University of Texas Medical Branch to bring remote medical aid to researchers working in Antarctica near the South Pole. UTMB is using Polycom’s RMX 2000 real-time media conference system, which is part of the company’s RealPresence Platform, to run a telemedicine network with 110,000 face-to-face patient consultations and […]

Making the “rounds” of a hospital could get more mobile and unified with a new prototype Windows 8 application Microsoft has demonstrated. It allows doctors to manage a patient’s hospital stay and boost communication with care teams. The app, named “Rounds,” integrates functionality from Microsoft applications such as Lync, the company’s unified communications platform. Doctors […]

Automatic Data Processing, a business outsourcer that offers payroll, tax and benefits processing applications, has announced an upgrade to its AdvancedMD practice-management health care app for the iPad to allow doctors to capture billing charges on the Apple tablet. The company’s AdvancedMD business offers cloud electronic health record (HER) software as well as applications for […]