The market for EHRs has stalled as potential buyers await the outcome of the government’s definition of “meaningful use” and “certified EHR” both critical for determining Stimulus reimbursement. Of course the recession has not helped things for EHR vendors with many a hospital and practice seeing fewer patients, smaller endowments (thanks a bunch Madoff), and [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Making “Meaningful Use” Well… Meaningful
Posted in CMS, consumer health, EHR, EMR, eRx, HIE, HIT, PHR, policy, standards, tagged ARRA, HITECH Act, Stimulus on April 30, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Health 2.0: A lot of Hot Air in This Balloon
Posted in consumer health, Google Health on April 27, 2009 | 25 Comments »
The Health 2.0 hot air balloon is beginning to leak air, drifting ever downward to earth, or at least that is what was hoped for in attending and observing the latest happenings in this market at the Health 2.0 conference last week in Boston. We at Chilmark Research like many of the apps in the [...]
“Meaningful Use” Usual Suspects to Gather and Define
Posted in EHR, EMR, eRx, policy, tagged ARRA, HITECH Act, Stimulus Bill on April 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »
In the incestuous world of the healthcare sector, HHS is bringing together the usual suspects in HIT to discuss what exactly “meaningful use” means within the context of the ARRA HITECH Act. The meeting will take place next week, April 28 & 29, in Washington DC. Meaningful use is right up there with “certified EHR” [...]
Too Many Content Plays = Unsustainable
Posted in consumer health, tagged Healia, Health 2.0, Healthline, WebMD on April 23, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Here at the Health 2.0 conference and have heard far too many demos (really just pitches) from a multitude of Health 2.0 companies that are really nothing more than some form of glorified search engine. It is clear that very few, if any, of these companies will be around in five years as there is [...]
Making HealthVault Personal
Posted in PHR on April 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Many of struggled with the HealthVault interface. Since launching HealthVault, Microsoft has maintained that HealthVault is not a PHR, but a data store in which a consumer may load many health data types including claims data (Aetna and United Health Group), clinical data (NY Presbyterian and MedStar or anyone else that can provide a CCD [...]
Busy Week Ahead
Posted in consumer health, policy on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week Boston will be hopping with healthcare leaders and innovators coming in for HealthCamp Boston, which takes place tomorrow and Health 2.0 which follows on the 22nd and 23rd. I’ll be attending both events and do my best to provide updates. Though I usually will write a post on events I attend, lately I [...]
The Human Equation in PHRs
Posted in consumer health, PHR, tagged behavioral change, HealthString on April 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The highlight of my trip to Chicago and HIMSS’09 had nothing to do with what occurred within the halls of the McCormick Center, but in the offices of a small company based out of Chicago, HealthString, where I had the opportunity to meet and go to dinner with one of its co-founders and CEO, George [...]
iTriage: Is this the Future of mHealth Apps?
Posted in consumer health, tagged Healthagen, HealthGrades, iPhone, iTriage, mHealth, Teladoc on April 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Couple of weeks back had the opportunity to talk to the CEO and CMO of Healthagen, developers of the iPhone app, iTriage a new, consumer-facing app with some interesting twists, including partnerships with Coalition America, HealthGrades and TelaDoc. iTriage can be found on the Apple iTunes store for less than a dollar. The co-creators of [...]
Bad Data Saga Continues
Posted in consumer health, Dossia, EHR, Google, Google Health, Health Cloud, HealthVault, PHR on April 15, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Since our post on Monday, where we highlighted the potential impact to PHR adoption of the Boston Globe story on one consumer’s less than ideal experience with Google Health, there has been a number of other conversations worthy of note: From John Halamka, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the source of the “bad [...]
Bad Data & PHR Adoption
Posted in consumer health, EMR, Google Health, HealthVault, PHR, tagged HITECH Act, ICD-10, ICD-9 on April 13, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Story in today’s Boston Globe that highlights the experiences of a cancer patient, David Debronkart, who exported his medical records from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) to his Google Health account. His experiences, which he discusses at length (beware, it’s a long post), exposes a very real problem we have today in the healthcare [...]
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