Brian T. Horowitz

The State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo is developing algorithms using an IBM Netezza 1000 data warehouse appliance and Revolution Analytics software to further multiple sclerosis (MS) research. The algorithms will allow the university to study genomic data sets for more than 2,000 genetic and environmental factors that may lead to MS symptoms. […]

Health care providers and government agencies are looking to make New York a center of digital health innovation. The New York State Department of Health, the New York City Investment Fund (NYCIF) and the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), a nonprofit spearheading the development of health record exchanges in the state, have launched the New […]

The Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF) for Parkinson’s Research has launched an online tool called Fox Trial Finder to ease the search for clinical trials and for volunteers willing to participate. People living with Parkinson’s disease as well as those without the disease who are willing to volunteer as a control subject in a trial […]

Within a few weeks’ time, massive health care breaches have been made public at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS) and the Utah Department of Health, showing a need for health care organizations to boost their security budgets, according to Judy Hanover, research director at IDC Health […]

A holding company with more than 400 subsidiaries, Virgin Group is involved in air travel, telecommunications, vacations, publishing and even vodka distillation. Virgin can track your health, too. Virgin HealthMiles, a company that offers wellness programs focused on employee engagement, has introduced the “Spring ’12 release” of its real-time health data dashboard platform. The Web-based […]

Emory Healthcare in Atlanta says that it has misplaced 10 backup disks containing information for 315,000 patients. The health system provides clinical care as part of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center of Emory University. Emory announced the data breach on April 18. The health system didn’t immediately respond to eWEEK‘s request for comment. […]

Supercomputing and big data have taken yet another step forward in leading to new treatment for cancer. Schrödinger, a company that offers molecular-modeling and drug-design software, and Nimbus Discovery are using Cycle Computing’s 50,000-core supercomputer to run a virtual screen to find a protein target responsible for cancer. Schrödinger helps fund the work of Nimbus, […]

In the age of electronic health records and remote-monitoring apps, faxing is still alive, especially in health care. But you’ll find the old-school technology being used in the cloud by companies such as Barnes Healthcare Services, a medical equipment company based in Valdosta, Ga. Biscom’s cloud faxing product, called, Faxcom Anywhere, allows Barnes to send […]

Patients may be a step ahead of their local hospitals in adopting social media tools, a new report by consulting firm PwC suggests. For its report “Social Media ‘Likes’ Healthcare: From Marketing to Social Business,” released April 17, the Health Research Institute at PwC interviewed 1,060 U.S. consumers. The consulting firm found that four in […]

Big data has a big role in furthering cancer research and treatment. Verizon is working on a new partnership with NantWorks to develop the Cancer Knowledge Action Network, a cloud database that will help doctors improve cancer care. NantWorks makes ultra-low-power semiconductors, supercomputers and advanced networks for health care, commerce and digital entertainment. The Cancer […]