On July 16th, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) held a lengthy meeting of the HIT Policy Committee where a wide range of topics were addressed by various workgroups. As we reported earlier, the Meaningful Use (MU) Workgroup presented the second draft of recommendations, that were approved. Over the course of [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Stuck in the Past: New HIE Model Required
Posted in Dossia, EHR, Google Health, Health Cloud, HealthVault, HIE, PHR, Privacy, tagged meaningful use on July 30, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Behavioral Change & Web-based Tools
Posted in consumer health, tagged behavioral change, eHealth on July 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
On Monday, a quick post was made in response to Esther Dyson’s question to me: “Is there any quantifiable evidence on the efficacy of Web-based tools to modify health-related behaviors.” Chilmark received a significant amount of comments to that post and our thanks goes out to one and all who have contributed. Now, in appreciation [...]
Interesting Question Raised
Posted in consumer health on July 27, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Attending the last day of the Aspen Health Forum, I was asked a question by Esther Dyson who is getting ready to take the stage to discuss the evolution of technology, its use and future impact on health and behaviors. She was invited, somewhat at the last moment, to participate in one of the final [...]
Aspen Health Forum: Views from the Mountains
Posted in consumer health, tagged Aspen Institute, Health Forum on July 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Over the next couple of days, Chilmark will have the honor and pleasure to attend the Aspen Institute’s Health Forum. Looking over the Forum agenda, one finds a pretty eclectic view on issues regarding health and wellness ranging from the usual topics of healthcare reform, Health IT, genomic research and the like to topics that [...]
Medem Quietly Folds Its PHR Business – Acquired by Medfusion
Posted in PHR, tagged acquisition, Medem, Medfusion on July 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Medem, one of the very early entrants into the Internet-based PHR (iPHR) market is calling it quits for its PHR efforts, selling its iHealth platform to Medfusion. Really not all that surprising as Medem, which was originally spun-out of the AMA, has dedicated very little R&D dollars towards the iHealth product, a product that is [...]
Meaningful Use & the PHR Market
Posted in EHR, HIE, PHR, policy, tagged ARRA, HITECH Act, ONC on July 17, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Yesterday’s ONC HIT Policy Committee meeting was a big one. Over the course of many hours, the committee went from hearing revised recommendations for Meaningful Use, to recommendations from the HIE workgroup and lastly recommendations regarding certification processes for EHRs. Over the next week or so we plan to do separate write-ups on each of [...]
Stay Tuned, Meaningful Use Part Deux Forthcoming
Posted in consumer health, EHR, EMR, policy, tagged ARRA, meaningful use, Stimulus on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today, ONC’s HIT Policy Committee will reconvene to hear the latest iteration of draft recommendations on “meaningful use.” For those of you that are new to all of this, “meaningful use” is the legislative language used in ARRA, to insure that the ~$36 billion to be spent on clinician adoption of EHRs will result in [...]
Apologies for Off the Grid
Posted in PHR on July 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Chilmark has not put up a post in a few days due to the death of the brother of a very dear and close friend. Her brother passed away in a late night car accident. He was 21 years old. He was alone. Sad and confusing. So sad for no parent should have to bury [...]
Independence, Basic Rights & PHI
Posted in EHR, EMR, PHR, policy on July 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
On the eve of our nation’s Independence Day, it is a good time to reflect on what this truly means to us, the US citizen and even reflect upon what this means within the context of healthcare and future reform efforts. From the beginning, the writings of Chilmark Research have tried to steer clear of [...]
CONNECT: The Feds Answer to Health Info Exchange
Posted in EHR, Google Health, HealthVault, HIE, HIT, Privacy, standards, tagged Exchanges, HHS, NHIN, ONC on July 1, 2009 | 8 Comments »
The feds are beating the CONNECT drum. This week, ONC sponsored a two-day event in DC to begin educating the market as to what CONNECT is and how it may be leveraged to support information exchange. At least that is the impression one had in signing up for this event. In actuality, the event was [...]
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