Brian T. Horowitz

U.S. News & World Report has published its list of “Most Connected Hospitals,” with 156 hospitals making this year’s rankings, announced on July 17. To be considered for the list, hospitals needed to meet the federal government’s guidelines on “meaningful use” of electronic health records (EHRs) by July 10. “This is the first year we’ve […]

Happtique, which runs a marketplace for mobile health applications, has released its draft guidelines on medical app development. Described as a “Good Housekeeping” seal of mobile apps by Happtique CEO Ben Chodor, the App Certification Program specifies which types of apps satisfy standards on operability, privacy, security and content, the company reported. Happtique is a […]

Motion Computing, a manufacturer of rugged tablets, has introduced the CL910 Tablet PC, its latest model for the health care, field service and retail industries. The model has been updated with an Intel dual-core processor, 128GB of solid-state memory and 2GB of RAM. It runs Windows 7 Professional and incorporates a 1.6GHz Atom N2600 dual-core […]

While technology companies are renewing their efforts to develop the infrastructure to create health insurance exchanges following the Supreme Court’s decision upholding “Obamacare,” the public is split on whether they would use HIXes, according to a study by Harris Interactive. Only 29 percent of the public would consider using the exchanges, according to the Harris […]

With China a key market for Apple’s future growth, the iPad manufacturer will begin selling the third generation of its tablet in the country beginning July 20. The announcement comes a week after Apple settled a trademark dispute with Shenzhen Proview Technology, a manufacturer of Chinese PCs and displays. Apple agreed to pay Proview $60 […]

U.S. Cellular, the nation’s sixth-largest carrier, will begin selling the Samsung Galaxy S III online on July 11 and in its stores by the end of this week. The carrier made the announcement July 10 on its Twitter page. On June 4, the carrier announced that it would begin presales on June 12 and that […]

The rise of health insurance exchanges With citizens required to sign up for health insurance or face a penalty, up to 33 million more Americans will acquire health insurance by 2021 according to PwC. This demand will lead to the development of Web-based health insurance exchange (HIX) platforms like those developed by Oracle and Microsoft. […]

UnitedHealthcare is easing patient access to personal health records (PHRs) by rolling out the federal government’s Blue Button Web tool. The Obama administration announced the Blue Button initiative in 2010. Developed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Health and Human Services, the technology allows patients, or consumers, to download their personal […]

Oracle has introduced Health Sciences Network, a set of cloud applications that will de-identify patient data, link health care organizations with information from clinical trials and screen patients for participation. The company developed the applications with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and Aurora Health Care, a health care system in eastern Wisconsin and […]

Although regulatory and security concerns have held back the health care industry from widespread adoption of public clouds, the overall cloud computing market in health care will grow to $5.4 billion by 2017, according to a report by research firm MarketsandMarkets. In 2011, 4 percent of the health care industry used cloud computing, but that […]