Brian T. Horowitz

A study by Menlo Park, Calif.-based Spyglass Consulting Group revealed a fragmented smartphone landscape among health care professionals, yet 94 percent of physicians are now using the mobile phones. Physicians have widely adopted smartphones yet still have difficulty communicating with colleagues and patients in a timely manner, the report reveals. In the study “Healthcare Without […]

Hospitals & Health Networks, a publication of the American Hospital Association’s Health Forum division, has announced its annual list of the Most Wired hospitals in its July 2010 issue. This year’s survey, which H&HN conducted along with health care solutions provider McKesson and CHIME (College of Healthcare Information Management Executives), listed 99 hospitals out of […]

Electronic medical records, or EMRs, are the top priority for IT professionals working in the health care industry, according to a new survey by Embarcadero Technologies, a San Francisco-based application development and database management firm. The study also found that for IT pros, meeting the challenges of working with data warehouses and health care information […]

Following the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ July announcement of requirements for “meaningful use” of electronic health records, GE Healthcare is rolling out a version of its Centricity Enterprise application that incorporates these objectives. Centricity allows enterprises keep track of patient flow and manage a practice’s revenue cycle. Centricity Enterprise 6.9, which GE […]

A Massachusetts hospital is under scrutiny after hundreds of thousands of patient and employee records went missing earlier this year. The missing files underscore the problems health care providers face when balancing patient privacy and the need to store massive amounts of data, especially as new federal rules for electronic health records come into play. […]

IBM is investing $100 million over the next three years to boost its efforts in medical research. The company will hire medical doctors, nurses, clinicians, social scientists and engineers to work alongside more than 100 of its IT researchers, IBM announced July 15. The IT giant is active in areas such as DNA sequencing and […]

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released final rules on how health care providers can qualify for up to $27 billion in incentives to implement electronic medical records beginning in 2011. The health care industry continues to mull over an 864-page document on “meaningful use” rules from the department’s CMS (Centers for […]

Verizon Business, a division of Verizon Communications, plans to simplify management of electronic medical records by offering a cloud platform to store patient records in a standard format. The Verizon Health Information Exchange, announced July 14, will be able to translate data from 14 to 18 major health care standards using the Oracle Healthcare Transaction […]

Hewlett-Packard is rolling out its EHReady program, a full-service electronic medical records package designed to make it easier for health care facilities to adopt the practice of electronic records storage. EHReady will also help health care organizations take advantage of federal stimulus benefits. EHReady, which HP officially announced July 13, will make hardware such as […]

IBM and the University of Missouri have announced an initiative to collaborate on a research cloud computing platform across the Midwest in which researchers will be able to share data on genomic sequences. Along with MU’s current IT hardware infrastructure, IBM iDataPlex high-performance systems will significantly accelerate the process of DNA sequencing and analysis of […]