Brian T. Horowitz

Calgary Scientific’s ResolutionMD For the Mayo study, researchers used ResolutionMD, which allows physicians to locate and access patient images and reports in real time as well as share images through embedded links in an email or text. Calgary Scientific launched version 3.1 of the app on Sept. 11. ResolutionMD on the iPad Calgary Scientific’s ResolutionMD […]

A crowd-funding site called Health Tech Hatch has launched to allow health care IT leaders to seek funding for new companies and test new products for usability in clinical environments. Crowd-funding is a method of using the Web to collect financial resources for initiatives such as startups, disaster relief, scientific research and product development. “A […]

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has announced plans to invest in data warehousing and analytic tools that will enable health professionals to create predictive models enabling personalized medical treatment. The data warehouse will store clinical, financial, administrative and genomic information that will allow doctors to improve patient outcomes, boost research and reduce health […]

Health IT company NantHealth has introduced a supercomputing platform that it says can reduce the time required to analyze genomic data of a cancer patient from eight weeks to 47 seconds. NantHealth is a division of NantWorks, which develops voice-recognition ultra-low power semiconductors, supercomputers and advanced networks for the health, commerce and entertainment industries. Dr. […]

Kaiser Permanente, a health system and plan provider, has released the results of a study showing that electronic health records (EHRs) enable doctors to improve their treatment and monitoring of diabetic patients. The company published its study results on Oct. 1 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. For the study, called “Outpatient Electronic Records and […]

Atigeo, a cloud software provider for health care, has launched applications for health record coders and personal medical research based on its xPatterns big data platform. The company is demonstrating both xPatterns C.A.C. (Computer Assisted Coding) and MedConnect at the American Health Information Management Association 2012 conference from Oct. 1 to 3 in Chicago. On […]

Compliance and Security With data breaches an ongoing concern for IT managers, hospitals need to ensure compliance with HIPAA, Ayad noted. The first thing health care providers should consider when seeking a cloud platform is whether the cloud provider will sign a business associate agreement, said Ayad. Cloud platforms such as Office 365 and Windows […]

Verizon Enterprise Solutions has launched new cloud services that will enable health care providers to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. HIPAA provides guidelines on securely storing patient information. Announced Oct. 1, the new cloud services include Collocation, Managed Hosting, Enterprise Cloud, Enterprise Cloud Express Edition and Enterprise Cloud Private Edition. Verizon’s […]

Software developer Drchrono has upgraded its electronic health record platform for the Apple iPhone and iPad with a Meaningful Use Assistant tool to allow doctors to get incentives from the federal government for implementing EHRs. Drchrono introduced the Meaningful Use Assistant feature for its platform on Sept. 27. The EHR application is designed for small […]

Nuance Communications has announced the acquisition of Quantim, a health information management unit of QuadraMed, to smooth the transition in the health care industry to a new claims code identifier called International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10. QuadraMed offers applications that allow health care organizations to manage access and identity, care, health information and revenue cycles. […]