Brian T. Horowitz

Cook Children’s Health System, in Fort Worth, Texas, has initiated use of 2D barcodes on vaccine bottles, which facilitates the streaming of data into health record databases such as the Microsoft HealthVault patient portal and Athenahealth’s AthenaClinicals electronic health record (EHR) application. Cook Children’s is a nonprofit pediatric health system with a history dating back […]

Sprint and remote health management provider Ideal Life have introduced wireless touch-screen kiosks to help patients track their health and wellness. Wireless machine to machine (M2M) technology allows patients to send vital health data to doctors using various mobile monitoring devices other than smartphones. The cloud-based kiosks run on Sprint’s 3G network. Ideal Life already […]

Radiant Sage, a developer of software for drug discovery and research, has introduced a software-as-a-service (SaaS) enterprise version of its Core-Lab-in-a-Box application that allows researchers discovering new pharmaceutical drugs to combine image data from multiple trials in a single database. Enterprise Core-Lab-in-a-Box is the first SaaS application to allow for management of medical imaging data […]

MediConnect, a health care IT software developer, has introduced a cloud platform that allows health insurers to manage workflows regarding reviews of health records, both remotely and on site. The company specializes in medical record retrieval and health information exchange (HIE) applications. Announced on Oct. 11, RapidRequest enables health plans to meet government deadlines on […]

IBM has donated its Project Blue Spruce software code to two health initiatives to enable real-time Web collaboration. Blue Spruce will allow for cobrowsing and online consultations in iTel’s iTelepsych.com telehealth platform and also provide the infrastructure for a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) research study, called COPDGene, at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). […]

Just as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs played a huge role in personal computing, music, telecommunications and consumer electronics, his inventions have left a mark in health care as well. When we think of “m-health” and using mobile devices to manage chronic conditions, e-prescribe medications and track how fast you run, the first devices that come […]

Conference organizer Health 2.0 and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have launched two new developer challenges for health care: “One in a Million Hearts” and “PopHealth Tools Development.” The challenges are part of the Investing in Innovation (i2) program, which […]

Verizon and Duke University have announced a partnership that the two parties say will build on cloud computing and mobile technology to change how health care is delivered. “For every project we’ve done, it comes back to how do we reconceptualize this so it hasn’t been done previously,” Kevin Schulman, director of the health sector […]

With security breaches always a threat, health care organizations need to find a way to share data to provide quality of care while also keeping data secure. Recent breaches involved misplaced backup tapes for Tricare, a provider of health care services to active and retired military personnel, and 20,000 patient records leaked to a private […]

Imprivata, a provider of access-management tools, has released the results of a survey showing health care poised to take the lead in desktop virtualization adoption in the next 12 months.For the report called “2011 Virtualization Trends in Healthcare,” researchers interviewed 477 IT managers in multiple industries, including health care and financial services. Health care had […]