Today, Siemens announced that it has struck a deal with Microsoft to create a German instance of the HealthVault platform to serve the citizens of Germany. In a deal similar to the one that Microsoft struck with Canadian telecom, Telus, Siemens IT Solutions and Services (SIS) will re-purpose the base HealthVault platform to meet Germany’s [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Siemens Brings HealthVault to Europe
Posted in HealthVault, Microsoft, PHP, PHR, tagged Germany, Siemens, Telus, Telus Health Space on January 28, 2010 | 6 Comments »
The PHR Risk: Revolution Health Axes PHR
Posted in consumer health, Google Health, HealthVault, PHR, tagged Everyday Health, Revolution Health, WebMD on January 27, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Revolution Health is closing down its Personal Health Record (PHR) service at the end of February. Below is the email sent to those with a Revolution Health PHR account. Thank you for being a loyal user of the Revolution Health Personal Health Record. Unfortunately we will be discontinuing this service as of the end of [...]
Personal Health Systems: A View from Across the Pond
Posted in consumer health, Dossia, Google Health, HealthVault, PHP, PHR, PHS, tagged EU, European Union on January 25, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The European Union (EU) is struggling with many of the same healthcare issues as the US, aging population, ever increasing costs of care and the need to move to new modalities of care. This is one of the key take-aways from a recent EU-sponsored report: Reconstructing the Whole: Present and Future of Personal Health Systems. [...]
Stunned but Smiling
Posted in PHR, tagged marketing, research, Twitter on January 21, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Found out yesterday that of some 500 industry analysts now on Twitter, I ranked 34th according to analysis done by the global PR firm, Edelman. Wow! As some of you know, nearly a year ago I started experimenting with the application/service Twitter and put a “Twitter Feed” on the site. I approached the use of [...]
Martha’s Mistakes
Posted in PHR, tagged healthcare reform, Martha Coakley, Massachusetts, Scott Brown on January 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Not one to comment on broader political issues but just can’t help myself today after awakening to the news that Kennedy’s Senate seat has gone to the Republican upstart Scott Brown. Whatever happened to carrying on Kennedy’s legacy for healthcare reform, something Martha Coakley vowed to support and Brown vowed to defeat? Has Massachusetts really [...]
RHIO Failure: CalRHIO Goes Belly-up
Posted in HIE, policy, tagged ARRA, CalRHIO on January 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The much ballyhooed Health Information Exchange (HIE) in the state of California, CalRHIO, has raised the white flag, dismissing its troops and sending home its arms supplier (Medicity). Despite its founding five years ago, support of some significant organizations (e.g., United Health Group, Cisco, HP, California Hospital Assoc., etc.) spending some $7M to date and [...]
Top Ten Predictions for Healthcare IT in 2010
Posted in CMS, Dossia, EHR, EMR, Google Health, HealthVault, HIE, HIT, mHealth, Microsoft, P4P, PHP, PHR, policy, telehealth on January 14, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Plenty of top ten predictions on any number of topics, but it is rare to find one focusing on healthcare IT, Chilmark Research’s bailiwick. And while we may be just a little late in getting this out there onto the streets, it is mid-January after all, our quick search on the net did not turn [...]
Analysis: MediConnect Acquires PHR Vendor, PassportMD
Posted in CCD, CCR, consumer health, Dossia, Google Health, HealthVault, PHP, PHR, tagged acquisition, MediConnect, PassportMD on January 12, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Yesterday, MediConnect announced that it had acquired Florida-based PHR vendor, PassportMD. The acquisition is a good move by MediConnect as it will allow them to extend beyond just collecting records on behalf of consumers (it offers such a service on Google Health), but now provide consumers with a solution to present such records in an [...]
Privacy & Security of Personal Health Information
Posted in Dossia, Google Health, HealthVault, Microsoft, Privacy, Security, tagged CES, Digital Health Summit on January 6, 2010 | 8 Comments »
On Saturday, Jan. 10th, I’ll be moderating a panel at the Consumer Electronics Show’s (CES) Digital Health Summit. The distinguished panel that includes executives from Dossia, Kaiser-Permenante, Microsoft and Walgreens will address the topic: Who Will you Trust with Your Health Data? In preparation, I have been doing some research on the subject and following [...]
Achieving Meaningful Use: View from the Trenches
Posted in CCD, CCR, consumer health, EHR, Google Health, HealthVault, PHR, policy, tagged certified EHR, HITECH Act, meaningful use on January 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Since the Meaningful Use and Certification proposed rules have been released, have read numerous articles, posts and tweets to gain some perspective on the ramifications of these rules on the market. The best piece I’ve read by far is that from Beth Israel Deaconess’s (BIDMC) own CIO, John Halamka. As many already know, Halamka has [...]
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