FDA Making App to Track Side Effects of Drugs

The Food and Drug Administration is developing an app it says will allow clinicians to monitor adverse reactions patients may develop from experimental drugs during public health emergencies.

The FDA said the “Real-Time Application for Portable Interactive Devices” has a collection of photos and videos of different possible reactions such as rashes or skin…

IBM Moves Hong Kong-based Healthcare Provider Servers to the Cloud

IBM is to build a virtualized infrastructure to aid Hong Kong-based healthcare providers in consolidating physical servers and moving them to the cloud, the company has announced. 

According to the release, the company will complete a project that includes consolidating more than 100 servers into a cloud environment that will host Quality HealthCare Medical Services‘ mission…

Symantec to Host Medical Device Conference in Minneapolis

Symantec, along with Mocana and Codenomicon, will host the “Amphion Forum: Medical” at the MD&M Conference in Minneapolis on Nov. 3. The summit consists of technology leaders who will address security breaches, hacks and vulnerabilities recently reported in a range of electronic medical devices.

“Security has always been a digital…

HP Selected to Build Infrastructure for Australia’s Digital Hospital

Hewlett-Packard Australia Pty ltd. has signed a technology services agreement where it will design, build and maintain a part of the information, communication and technology systems for the South Australia Government’s next-generation hospital.

The new Royal Adelaide Hospital will be the first to use version 2.0 of the HP Digital Hospital Solution as the technology foundation resulting in…

SAIC Awarded Contract by VA

SAIC announced that it has been awarded a prime contract by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to provide IT services in support of the Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology program. The contract has a five-year base period of performance and a ceiling value of $12 billion.

SAIC will provide IT services as required to integrate systems, networks…

Dell Ranked No. 1 Global Healthcare IT Services Provider

Dell is the leading provider of healthcare IT services globally according to a recent Gartner industry report. Dell has achieved the No 1. ranking two consecutive years. 

“Our goal is to deliver services and solutions that enable healthcare providers to administer the highest quality of care to their patients. The ranking as the top provider of healthcare services reflects…

Social Interest Solutions and Microsoft Form Alliance

Social Interest Solutions and Microsoft have announced a strategic alliance to help government agencies save time and money in designing and deploying technology and processes underlying health insurance exchanges.

Microsoft will provide technology and state government expertise. Social Interest Solutions will provide knowledge and experience focusing on enrollment, standards and interoperability.

“We are pleased to be working with Microsoft at this historic time,” said Claudia Page, co-director at…

Experts Forecast World Healthcare IT Market to Grow

Experts report in recent forecast that the world healthcare IT market is expected to grow from $99.6 billion in 2010 to $162.2 billion in 2015, at a CAGR of 10.2 percent from 2010 to 2015.

The need to cut healthcare costs, enhance clinical workflow of hospitals and the demand for faster and more efficient healthcare delivery are fueling the healthcare provider IT market worldwide….

Symantec’s Healthcare Expert: Substantial Risk for Cyber Attack on Medical Devices

Although there has not yet been a planned cyber attack on medical devices, the “collateral damage” of viruses has infected the medical community, according to Axel Wirth, healthcare solutions architect at Symantec.

During his June 25 presentation at the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation Conference…

Healthcare Data Breaches Occur More Often than in Financial Industry

Data breaches relating to healthcare have risen sharply in the past year, outstripping other industries, according to a new report.

The 2010: Identity Theft Resource Center reports shows data stores in the healthcare industry experienced three times more data breaches than the financial industry.

“Healthcare database technology is still older and a lot of it is proprietary and…