Brian T. Horowitz

Despite the ongoing move to electronic health records (EHRs) in health care, many doctors still prefer to print out documents and make annotations on hard copy. Chen Medical, a Florida-based health system for seniors, has turned to PrintMe Mobile from Electronics for Imaging (EFI) to do just that. Since many of its users are low-income […]

Amid big data analytics’ increasing role in health care, software developer GNS Healthcare and nonprofit health plan provider Cambia Health Solutions announced June 27 that they will build a medication adherence platform to allow health professionals to study the causal relationship between adhering to medication routines and reducing health care costs. Called Medication Adherence, the […]

As an Oct. 1 deadline approaches for open enrollment in health insurance exchanges (HIXes), mandated under the Affordable Care Act, IT vendors, the federal government and states are rushing to complete the HIXes in time. The Government Accountability Office (GAO), the watchdog arm for Congress, issued a report June 19 stating that HIXes are behind […]

As doctors look to communicate quickly through text messaging without violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Sprint has announced it will offer two secure messaging platforms for health care. They are Enterprise Message-Secure, powered by Israeli secure messaging company TeleMessage, and TigerText’s TigerText Pro. TigerText Pro is a secure mobile-messaging platform operating […]

IT as a service (ITaaS) will bring cost savings to the health care IT industry, according to a report by MeriTalk, a public/private partnership and an online community for government IT. ITaaS, a combination of software as a service, platform as a service and infrastructure as a service, can save health care organizations $11 billion, […]

Online tools are a helpful resource for 59 percent of caregivers with Internet access, but as far as tracking when a person takes medication or schedules refills, they’ve yet to learn how mobile applications may help, a new report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project revealed. Online and mobile tools for medication compliance […]

Pregnancy Companion Provides Mobile Tips for Expectant Women by Brian T. Horowitz The Journey to Birth Developed by OB-on-the-Go, Pregnancy Companion provides a step-by-step guide to a baby’s arrival. It incorporates advice from ob-gyns and allows expectant mothers to input data on appointments, weight and the number of kicks. Staying Hydrated for the Baby Pregnancy […]

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has announced progress in a big data project involving breast cancer research. Using an enterprise data warehouse built as part of a five-year $100 million investment in IT infrastructure from dbMotion, IBM, Informatica and Oracle, announced on Oct. 1, 2012, Pitt researchers examined de-identified data on 140 patients. […]

Digital health company Jiff has launched a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that allows health plans, providers and employers to develop digital health applications designed to engage consumers. Companies will be able to develop apps that support weight-loss, diet-tracking and diabetes-management programs, Derek Newell, CEO of Jiff, told eWEEK. The Jiff platform offers a Web and […]

DataMotion, a unified data delivery company, has formed a partnership with DigiCert, an enterprise security vendor, to allow health care organizations to exchange data in a simpler way using the federal Direct Project data-transfer protocol. The Direct Project was created by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) within the U.S. […]