What’s Big in Healthcare Technology – Big Data!

Among the news items relating to M & A’s this week was something of great interest to those of us concerned with the Healthcare Technology world. IBM’s Watson Health unit just announced acquisition of not one but two healthcare focused startups Phytel and Explorys. The truly interesting thing was the Big Data connection of both…

NFC Days Are Coming To Healthcare

A Frost & Sullivan report has estimated that this year as many as $ 111.19 Billion worth of payments will be made through NFC. One would assume that with such robust growth on the cards in the payments space the proponents would have their hand full but this is not the case. Companies with a…

It’s Called the HITECH Act For A Reason

Ok – we know that HITECH stands for Health Information Technology for Economic & Clinical Health but our contention is that this may be a case of the term being ,made up to fit the cool and rather apt acronym. Since being signed into law in early 2009 technology has had a significant impact on…