Late yesterday afternoon, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) who holds the big bucket of ARRA incentive funds for EHR adoption, released two major documents for public review and comment that will basically define healthcare IT for the next decade. The first document, at 136 pgs, titled: Health Information Technology: Initial Set of [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Meaningful Use Rules Hit the Streets
Posted in EHR, EMR, eRx, HIE, HIT, policy, RHIO, standards, tagged ARRA, CCHIT, CMS, HITECH Act, meaningful use on December 31, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Quiet for the Holiday Break
Posted in EHR, policy, tagged ARRA, CMS on December 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Will be quiet here at Chilmark Research as I take a break to be with family in the western offices of Chilmark Research. Though I’ll be skiing as much as conceivably possible, in the early mornings before the lifts open or evenings, if I have any energy left, I’ll check the news, various sites keeping [...]
Top 10 Things to Consider When Choosing a PHR
Posted in CCD, CCR, consumer health, EHR, EMR, PHP, PHR, Privacy, Security, standards, telehealth, tagged biometrics on December 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
At some point, hopefully in the not so distant future, physicians, clinics and hospitals will reach for the ARRA/HITECH Act carrot, adopt a certified EHR and demonstrate meaningful use. One proposed requirement for meaningful use that will likely pass through the CMS rule making process is the requirement allowing citizens to receive their personal health [...]
Looking Back: 2009 Forecast Assessment
Posted in CCR, consumer health, Dossia, EHR, EMR, Google Health, HealthVault, HIE, HIT, mHealth, SaaS, telemedicine, tagged ARRA, forecast, HITECH Act on December 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A common practice among analyst firms such as Chilmark Research is to make annual predictions of what is in store for the coming year. Chilmark will be making its own predictions for 2010 in the next couple of weeks. Unfortunately, what most analyst firms do not do is reflect on their previous predictions and assess [...]
Savvy Move, MSFT Acquires Sentillion
Posted in HIE, Microsoft, Security, tagged Amalga UIS, Microsoft, Sentillion on December 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today, Microsoft announced that it will be acquiring the healthcare IT security software firm Sentillion. This is Microsoft Health Solutions Group’s biggest acquisition to date and will add critical security features to their clinician centric solution Amalga UIS. Chilmark Research sees this as a very savvy acquisition that will further extend the capabilities and thus [...]
Cloud Computing, Security & Privacy Considerations
Posted in EMR, Health Cloud, HIE, tagged cloud computing, ENISA, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS on December 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
While conducting research for the long overdue and nearly completed report on Personal Health Clouds (Dossia, Google Health and HealthVault) came across a recently published report by the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) addressing cloud computing security. Though quite long (over 120 pages) the report provides a very comprehensive overview of cloud computing, [...]
Can RWJF’s Common Platform Gain Traction?
Posted in consumer health, Google Health, HealthVault, PHR, tagged Project HealthDesign, RWJF on December 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
In late November, the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announced the release of a hosted version of the Project HealthDesign Common Platform Development Environment (CDE). The CDE is an outgrowth of the broader Project HealthDesign initiative that began in 2006 (prior to HealthVault, Google Health and in close proximity to Dossia’s launch) wherein a number [...]
Microsoft’s Amalga & HealthVault Land LTC Provider
Posted in HealthVault, Microsoft, PHR, tagged Amalga on December 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Just released this morning, Microsoft announced that it has landed Golden Living, a provider of long-term care (LTC) and like services for the elderly and disabled. Similar to the New York Presbyterian and the Caritas Christi Health wins, Golden Living will be adopting Amalga UIS for internal aggregation of a customer’s health data to facilitate [...]
Reading the Tea Leaves: CMS to Release MU Rules this Month
Posted in EHR, HIE, HIT, policy, standards, tagged HHS, HITECH, ONC on December 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The healthcare IT (HIT) industry waits with baited breath for the release of preliminary meaningful use (MU) rules, scheduled for later this month. Why the baited breath? Market has basically stalled as physicians & hospital CIOs hold off HIT purchases awaiting what will actually be asked of them to get those ARRA reimbursement checks. Will [...]
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