Brian T. Horowitz

AT&T and Alere Health are collaborating on a mobile-health platform that will allow caregivers at Alere to manage patients’ type 2 diabetes using WellDoc’s DiabetesManager software. Alere provides patient-centered health management to 290,000 people with diabetes. It also enables patients to manage conditions such as heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma. DiabetesManager is […]

Wearable computing could lead to an overhaul of mobile phone architecture, according to a July report by GigaOM Pro, the research arm of online tech publisher GigaOM. These wearable sensors were the subject of science fiction not too many years ago. Then, the military started developing them. Now these devices are moving into fitness and […]

Allergy symptoms will be on the radar for drivers with an iPhone or iPad. Ford Motor Co. has added IMS Health’s Allergy App to its Sync AppLink platform, which allows drivers to connect their mobile apps with their car computer system through Bluetooth or USB and operate the system using voice commands and steering wheel […]

St. Luke’s Health System, a nonprofit network of seven hospitals and five cancer-specialty clinics around Idaho, has implemented a telehealth project using Microsoft Lync 2010, a unified communications platform that allows users to participate in video conferences, instant messaging and Web conferencing. Microsoft offers Lync as a stand-alone platform, as part of Office 365 and […]

Atigeo, a big data analytics company, has launched PubMed Explorer, an application that allows medical researchers to search the federal database to present results of medical studies based on context in a graphical display. PubMed is a National Institutes of Health database that provides access to more than 400,000 medical research documents. PubMed Explorer uses […]

Although doctors are showing interest in using electronic health records€”likely due to federal financial incentives€”only 26 percent of patients want to see EHRs used, according to research by Harris Interactive commissioned by Xerox. Among respondents, 85 percent of patients expressed concern about digital medical records, Xerox reported. For the third annual EHR online survey, Harris […]

Dexcom  Dexcom’s software is used by the U.S. cycling team to monitor their blood glucose levels at the 2012 Summer Games. “These are early-phase trials to see how it works,” Kevin Sayer, president of Dexcom, told the Financial Times. The free Dexcom app allows users to view training videos and follow a step-by-step guide on […]

Independa, a provider of remote-health monitoring for the elderly, plans to integrate Ideal Life’s medical monitoring devices with its Artemis vital sign sensors. The combined technology will enable remote-monitoring of the elderly to become more “plug and play.” With its remote-monitoring services, Independa allows the elderly to remain independent and in their homes. “Technology is […]

Microsoft now offers business associate agreements (BAA) for Windows Azure Core Services under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the company announced in a July 25 blog post. Under the HIPAA Privacy rule, covered entities (a doctor, health insurance provider or health care clearing-house) must include a BAA for documentation when seeking access […]

The venture capital funds are flowing into health care IT, according to a new report by communications and consulting firm Mercom Capital Group. VC funding in health care IT reached $293 million in the second quarter of 2012, compared with $66 million in six deals for the second quarter of 2011. In the first quarter […]