Brian T. Horowitz

IT giant EMC has built a secure private cloud for ORMC (Orange Regional Medical Center), a 450-bed hospital system in Middletown, N.Y., as the medical organization undergoes a major consolidation of facilities. ORMC is combining two existing hospitals onto a single 600,000-plus square-foot campus in Middletown. The new facility will be the first new hospital […]

The Website MobiHealthNews has published a report showing growth in mobile reference applications for the medical field. In the report “The Fastest Growing and Most Successful Health & Medical Apps,” MobiHealthNews says the number of mobile health applications has grown by 78 percent, though about 20 percent of mobile users in the United States are […]

As hospitals look to cash in on government incentives for meaningful use of electronic health records starting in 2011, they’re leaving themselves vulnerable to $6 billion lost a year to data breaches industrywide, according to a benchmark study by the Ponemon Institute privacy and data-management research firm. The survey was sponsored by ID Experts, a […]

Hewlett-Packard will donate $1 million to the mHealth Alliance’s efforts to promote health through wireless and mobile devices. The Alliance made the announcement on Nov. 8 in Washington, D.C., at its mHealth Summit, a conference it organized along with the National Institutes of Health and the nonprofit fund-raising and research group, the Foundation for the […]

Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller has filed a lawsuit against insurance company WellPoint for delaying notification of a data breach to the AG’s office and to the more than 32,000 customers in Indiana affected. The suit claims that WellPoint violated two Indiana notification laws with each one carrying a penalty of up to $150,000 in […]

AT&T has formed a new health care unit called ForHealth to combine current services with future mobile and cloud products to improve the quality of patient care and lower medical costs across the United States, the company reports. “It’s a formulization of the structure, the practice, the continued investment, pulling everything together into a more […]

Sandlot, a health care IT company in Fort Worth, Texas, has announced that its SandlotConnect Health Information Exchange database of Electronic Medical Records now includes 1.5 million patient records. HIE databases allow physicians, hospitals and clinics to share medical records from various providers and public health authorities to analyze population data to improve community health. […]

Emerson Network Power’s 2010 Hospital IT and Facilities Special Report has uncovered IT management’s apprehension regarding budgeting, uninterruptible power supply coverage and access to equipment. Health care professionals increasingly rely on sophisticated communication and computing technology in hospitals such as electronic medical records, smartphones and tablet PCs. However, there’s a fundamental scarcity of critical IT […]

The Defense Department has developed a smartphone application for the military, called T2 Mood Tracker, that enables veterans and current members of the service to keep track of their emotions and behaviors following deployment. Users can record information on therapy, medication, daily events and environmental changes, the department reports. Mood Tracker was created by T2 […]

Microsoft has announced plans to license its HealthVault personal health portal to Chinese IT outsourcing company iSoftStone Information Technology, making the PHR platform available in China. Wuxi, a province of Jiangsu, China, will be the first area of the country to gain access to HealthVault, with additional areas of Jiangsu to follow, according to Mark […]