Brian T. Horowitz

A new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project and the California HealthCare Foundation shows that Americans still go mostly offline for health resources, but the numbers are higher for adults in their 20s. Pew has reported that 96 percent of people ages 18 to 29 have a cell phone. In the 18-29 […]

Mobile medical software company AirStrip Technologies and Sprint announced an agreement to offer AirStrip’s Remote Patient Monitoring applications on the carrier’s smartphones. RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) is an enterprise platform that can deliver real-time patient data from a hospital monitoring station to a caregiver’s phone, desktop or laptop. Sprint’s HTC Evo 4G will run AirStrip’s […]

AT&T and WellDoc will begin a test phase of a partnership in mobile health, offering a diabetes management application to a sample of AT&T employees in 2011. Under the partnership, AT&T plans to market and sell WellDoc’s mobile health products from end to end to insurance payers, self-insured employers and disease-management organizations, the carrier reports. […]

Xerox’s Affiliated Computer Services IT outsourcing unit has acquired pharmaceutical teleservices company TMS Health from Palm Beach Capital, a private equity company, Xerox has announced. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. TMS, a teleservices company based in Boca Raton, Fla., will now become part of ACS, and TMS CEO Guy Amato will remain in […]

GE Healthcare has announced that it has opened up the architecture of its Centricity EHR (electronic medical record) software to allow physicians at various stages of care-whether it’s a primary care physician, an assisted living facility or a specialist-to share information using the same EHR product, whether it’s by GE or another vendor. In early […]

Verizon Business has announced an expansion of its Medical Data Exchange Web platform to incorporate a larger variety of data, more providers and a new name for its exchange consortium. Since the exchange was first launched in March, Verizon has allowed for dictated notes to be shared from transcriptionist to physician and from physician to […]

IBM and Nuance Communications have announced a partnership in speech recognition to direct physician-dictated text into the structured fields of an EHR (electronic health record). Nuance is the maker of the Dragon speech-recognition software, which in addition to health care and other industries is used in the White House and Defense Department. According to Peter […]

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services has received a $26 million order to continue its IT support for the Department of Health and Human Services’ CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) division. Under the contract announced Oct. 13, HP will maintain an IDR (Integrated Data Repository) for CMS and provide services to improve the accuracy of Medicare […]

AT&T has announced plans to carry eCardio Diagnostics’ cardiac arrhythmia-monitoring mobile devices on its wireless network to allow physicians to monitor patients’ heartbeats in real time. The eCardio M2M (machine-to-machine) monitor allows heart patients to recuperate at home from arrhythmia, or irregular heartbeats, rather than endure a long stay in the hospital. An arrhythmia, or […]

WebMD, a respected online resource for health news and tips, introduced an enhanced version of its mobile app for the iPhone and iPad on Oct. 8 at the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco, according to WebMD company spokesperson Adam Grossberg. In a demonstration, WebMD’s CEO Wayne Gattinella showed how the mobile app can access […]