IBM customizes cloud services for the enterprise
Hoping to jump out in front of providers of generic cloud services, IBM has launched a portfolio of cloud packages, called IBM Cloud Business Solutions, designed to run specific business processes such as asset management and customer care. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - May 29, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Samsung shows off Simband watch as platform for multiple health sensors
Samsung demonstrated a concept watch, the Simband, that's designed to be a platform for sensors from third-party vendors and to work with Samsung's SAMI wireless data broker service. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - May 29, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Healthcare CIO Edward Marx: IT ROI is measured in lives saved
Edward Marx, senior vice president and CIO at Texas Health Resources in Arlington, is using social media to connect with the organization's local community and implementing BI tools to deliver advanced clinical care. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - May 19, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
MIT uses nanotech to hit cancer with one-two punch
In a second report this week on scientists' use of nanotechnology to battle cancer, researchers at MIT announced a new way to use nanoparticles to give cancerous cells a one-two punch. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - May 10, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
IT malpractice: Doc operates on server, costs hospitals $4.8M
An inadvertent data leak that stemmed from a physician's attempt to reconfigure a server cost New York Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center $4.8 million to settle with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - May 9, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Nanotech Trojan horses target and kill brain cancer
Scientists at Johns Hopkins University are using nanoparticles as Trojan horses that deliver "death genes" to kill brain cancer cells that surgeons can't get to. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - May 6, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Samsung sets May 28 event to talk up health
Samsung Electronics has sent out invitations to a May 28 event in San Francisco, at which the company is expected to expand its health-related offerings (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - May 2, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Wearable devices with health IT functions poised to disrupt medicine
The next innovation in health care may come from Silicon Valley. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - May 1, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Oracle, Oregon officials once eyed faulty state site as Healthcare.gov fix
On at least one occasion, technology behind Oregon's faulty health insurance website was discussed as a possible fix for problems that initially beset Healthcare.gov, the federal insurance exchange that underpins Obamacare. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - May 1, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Why Healthcare Needs Amazon (or Anyone) to Shake Things Up
As healthcare in the United States embarks on what PwC describes as its most radical shift in 80 years, most health IT incumbents just aren't cutting it. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - April 28, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Healthcare IT pros laud security, privacy tools
Healthcare IT spending is projected to hit $34.5 billion in North America this year as organizations wrestle with healthcare reform, adoption of electronic records, and the proliferation of digital and wireless medical devices. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - April 28, 2014 Category: Information Technology Tags: IDG Insider Source Type: news
Exclusive video: How a Boston hospital protected healthcare data after last year's Marathon explosions
Dr. John Halmaka tells how his IT team invented a real-time security plan in the midst of the chaos. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - April 21, 2014 Category: Information Technology Tags: IDG Insider Source Type: news
Cleveland Clinic CIO: Tools are the biggest barrier to IT-driven medical care
Dr. C. Martin Harris, CIO at Cleveland Clinic and a former health technology adviser to President Obama, is using technology to redefine healthcare for patients and caregivers alike. Insider (registration required) (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - April 21, 2014 Category: Information Technology Tags: IDG Insider Source Type: news
Oracle rebuts Oregon claims about troubled health care site
Oracle is gearing up for a fight with officials in Oregon over its role developing an expensive health insurance exchange website that still isn't fully operational. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - April 17, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
With Google Glass, the doctor can see you now
Emergency room physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center are four months into a pilot program where they are using Google's computerized eyeglasses to help treat patients. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - April 17, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
