Brian T. Horowitz

AmeriHealth Mercy Family of Companies is offering health-management mobile applications to its member physicians using NaviNet’s Mobile Connect platform. NaviNet is a provider of real-time health care communications. The applications will allow doctors in the AmeriHealth network to access mobile clinical care alerts and prescribe medications electronically. Using Mobile Connect, AmeriHealth doctors will be able […]

Apple may sell as many as 4.6 million Macs in the third quarter of 2011 thanks to “pent-up demand” for the new MacBook Air and MacBook Minis, as well as the Mac OS X “Lion,” which all launched in July, according to new report by Piper Jaffray. Apple could break Mac sales record for the […]

Watson is moving on from “Jeopardy” champion to physician’s assistant. IBM and health insurer WellPoint are now creating the first commercial products for the super-smart supercomputer and plan to test these applications in clinical trials soon. WellPoint will allow doctors to use Watson to improve diagnostic accuracy, make better-informed treatment decisions and fine-tune claims processing. […]

Adobe is working with doctors and insurers to bring about a paperless contract-signing process through the company’s EchoSign Web application. To make contract signing less cumbersome, EchoSign enables digital signatures for doctors signing contracts with health insurance companies. EchoSign allows insurers and physicians to automate the contract-signing process, and physicians can sign digitally on an […]

American Well, a major provider of virtual doctor’s visits, has announced that its Online Care telehealth platform will now connect to remote-monitoring devices using the NumeraNet gateway. The Online Care telehealth service allows doctors and patients to conduct live online visits using two-way video, secure text chat or the phone. Patients can access the American […]

A new study by Veriphyr, a software-as-a-service data analytics application provider, found that 71 percent of health care organizations have suffered at least one data breach within the past year. Veriphyr offers data-analytics software that allows medical practices to view logs showing who has accessed patients’ medical records. Insider peeks were responsible for most of […]

With 2011 marking the 15th anniversary of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, health care providers and IT companies continue to evaluate how to keep electronic health data secure. On Aug. 21, 1996, President Clinton signed into law a set of rules detailing who can access personal health information. Under HIPAA, health information may […]

Microsoft has shifted its health care IT management, naming Michael Robinson general manager of U.S. Health & Life Sciences and moving Dr. Dennis Schmuland into the new role of chief health strategy officer. The shift in leadership is a continuation of Microsoft’s current health care IT strategies, according to Robinson, who blogged about the changes […]

CSC, an IT integrator and cloud-service provider, has released a new report suggesting that health care IT departments should act fast to support the mobile devices that physicians are using.Doctors are adopting smartphones at more than twice the rate of the general population, according to CSC’s report, called “Harnessing the Value of mHealth for Your […]

Verizon has announced enhancements to its Universal Identity Services-Healthcare platform to allow for easy but secure access to electronic health records (EHRs) and health information exchanges (HIEs) on mobile devices. Launched in November 2010, UIS is a managed service from Verizon’s Terremark IT services subsidiary. UIS is a software as a service (SaaS) utility that […]