Brian T. Horowitz

Health management tools are among 17 new mobile applications that are available on the General Services Administration’s newly revamped USA.gov Website. USA.gov, officially relaunched on July 2, is a central portal for all federal government entities operated by GSA, which is the government agency that manages the basic business operations of the U.S. government, such […]

A team of UCLA researchers is headed to Africa this summer for a series of experiments on a new type of lensless microscope that can work with either a mobile device, such as a smartphone, or a PC. The research group is led by Aydogan Ozcan of UCLA’s California NanoSystems Institute. The idea behind the […]

SoloHealth, a company focused on health education and prevention, plans to place self-service health kiosks in major retail stores to allow people to test themselves for conditions such as diabetes, obesity and hypertension, and to check their vision and hearing. Patients will then receive recommendations for follow-up care. The company announced on June 17 that […]

IBM and Roche, a pharmaceutical and diagnostics company based in Basel, Switzerland, are working together to fine-tune a DNA decoding process that could lead to faster and more affordable sequencing and personalized medication. As part of the July 1 agreement, Roche’s subsidiary, 454 Life Sciences, will market and distribute future products based on IBM’s DNA […]

With a large distance separating U.S. veterans from the proper medical care they need, the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) is a major adopter of mobile health technology. The House Veterans Affairs Health Subcommittee held a hearing on June 24 in which military officers and health care IT experts discussed the latest innovations in […]

Having trouble remembering to take your pills? According to preliminary results from a study by the Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners HealthCare, wireless electronic pill bottle caps may be able to help. The telehealth provider announced the results of a study on June 23 that showed a 27 percent increase in medication […]

You may be able to dread cardiovascular tests a little less. A software-based medical technique from General Electric called Adaptive Statistical Iterative Reconstruction, or ASIR, has led to a lower amount of radiation in computed tomography (CT) colonography tests while maintaining accurate results, according to an article appearing in the American Journal of Roentgenology, published […]

Motion Computing on June 22 rolled out its latest Tablet PC, the J3500, a unit geared toward the health care industry as well as other verticals such as construction that require rugged mobile devices for field service applications. The rugged design of the J3500 makes it suitable for harsher environments, such as a hospital where […]

The health care industry is cutting the wires in droves. ABI Research reported on June 22 that WiFi use in the health care industry has grown at more than 60 percent during the past 12 months in wireless local area network and WiFi RTLS (Real-Time Locations Systems) deployments. In the last year growth in cellular […]

Health care provider Humana is targeting the mobile health market with its first iPhone application. Produced with Persuasive Games, the $2.99 Colorfall application is now available in the iPhone App Store and aims to keep the mind sharp. It involves fast thinking to arrange the colors of the rainbow and allows players to shoot iPhone […]