Brian T. Horowitz

NYGH (North York General Hospital), a multisite teaching hospital in Toronto, will become the first Canadian hospital to integrate both IBM’s data aggregation software and a dashboard tool. Big Blue has optimized its InfoSphere Clinical Analytics application to process the data-intensive workloads of hospitals, the company reports. The software platform takes data from 50 collection […]

The equivalent of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the EMA (European Medicines Agency), based in London, is a public health agency in the European Union that approves drugs and provides guidelines for health care providers and pharmaceutical firms for a region spanning from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean Sea. As the head of […]

Enterprise social-networking firm DocCom Solutions and 18 other UK health care companies toured Silicon Valley the week of Jan. 13, as part of the 2011 UK Future Health Mission, to drum up support for their work in health care and find potential investors to expand into the United States. Billing itself as a “Facebook for […]

At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a Digital Health Summit event highlighted some innovative “game changers” poised to change elder care, implants and medication management. Organizing the Jan. 7 Digital Health Summit were Jill Gilbert, a product strategist and co-founder of elder care resource Gilbert Guide, as well as veteran technology editor […]

Verizon Wireless and remote health management provider BL Healthcare have demonstrated a 4G LTE version of a high definition video-enabled telemedicine platform. The exhibition of BL’s TCx-I Healthcare Access Terminal enabled for Verizon’s 4G LTE-enabled network took place at the Consumer Electronics Show from Jan. 6-9. As part of BL’s HD video-enabled platform, the company […]

Amid a flurry of new HIEs (health information exchanges) around the country, on Jan. 12 Hewlett-Packard announced a 52-month services deal with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to create a statewide Medicaid HIE. HP is the principal IT provider for Medicaid in 21 states. HIEs provide a unified platform for physicians to access […]

IBM and Premier Healthcare Alliance, an organization dedicated to health care performance improvement, have announced a partnership to build a new open-standard, data-metric platform to allow hospitals in Premier’s network to share data. Premier serves more than 2,400 U.S. hospitals and 70,000-plus additional health care facilities to provide what it calls “the nation’s most comprehensive […]

Zyxel Communications, a leading maker of networking and security hardware for the home and small business markets, has announced an agreement to integrate its Smart Home Gateway with Entra Health Systems’ MyGlucoHealth Bluetooth-enabled blood glucose meter. The companies announced the partnership from the Consumer Electronics Show onJan. 5 in Las Vegas. For Entra Health, its […]

AT&T has announced that it will incorporate MedApps’ remote-monitoring products into its ForHealth portfolio of health-care IT products. In November, AT&T formed the ForHealth unit to combine the company’s current health-care IT offerings in mobile health, telehealth and the cloud with other companies’ products, such as MedApps’ suite, to help patients monitor chronic conditions, such […]

Mobile technology company Qualcomm has announced that it will integrate its wireless IEM (Internet of Everything Module) into health care technology provider Telcare’s 3G-enabled 3GM blood glucose meter. Announced on Jan. 4, the Telcare device will be on display at Qualcomm’s booth at CES (the Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas Jan. 6-9. The new […]