Three years ago while still very wet behind the ears on all things healthcare IT (HIT), I attended my first HIMSS conference. Having been to many conferences/trade shows before, some far larger than HIMSS, I was not intimated by the size, but I was quite intimated by a lack of the HIT vernacular (every industry [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Atlanta Bound – HIMSS’10
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIE, HIT, tagged HIMSS'10, HITECH Act on February 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The Great Land Grab of 2010 or the Play for State HIEs
Posted in HIE, policy, tagged ARRA, Axolotl, GE Healthcare, HHS, HITECH Act, IBM, Initiate, InterSystems, Medicity on February 25, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The first major distribution of HITECH Act funds occurred a couple of weeks ago when HHS awarded nearly $1 billion for HIT initiatives including $386 million to 40 states and territories to help establish public Health Information Exchanges (HIEs). This represents the lion’s share of the original $564 million allocated for Statewide HIE development under [...]
The Migration to Modular HIT Apps
Posted in EHR, EMR, HealthVault, HIE, Microsoft, tagged Amalga UIS, certified EHRs, Eclipsys, modular, PaaS on February 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Been a lot of talk over the last year or so regarding the move to smaller, more modular, substitutable apps (think iPhone) to address healthcare IT sector needs, particularly for providers. This discussion has progressed to the point where HHS, in looking to certify EHRs, is also looking at how these small modular EHR apps [...]
Top 5 Do’s & Don’ts for Speaking with Analysts at HIMSS
Posted in EHR, HIE, HIT, mHealth, PHR, tagged analyst, cloud computing, HIMSS on February 22, 2010 | 6 Comments »
The big health IT industry confab HIMSS kicks off one week from today. With some 28 briefings scheduled over 2.5 days, the Chilmark Research team will be extremely busy to say the least. It is with that in mind that Chilmark has prepared the top 5 do’s and don’ts that all vendors need to keep [...]
Relaxing Meaningful Use? Not Really
Posted in CMS, EHR, EMR, HIT, policy, Security, standards, tagged ARRA, HITECH Act, menaingful use on February 19, 2010 | 5 Comments »
There has been a lot of talk this week in the trade pubs about the HIT Policy Committee (HITPC) meeting on Wednesday wherein the committee recommended a relaxation of meaningful use (MU) requirements. But if one looks closer, the “story” is far deeper and certainly of more significance. If you frequent this site, you already [...]
CCD Standard Gaining Traction, CCR Fading
Posted in Google, Google Health, HIE, HL 7, tagged CCD, CCR, CDA, HIT standards on February 17, 2010 | 9 Comments »
In a number of interviews with leading HIE vendors, it is becoming clear that the clinical standard, Continuity of Care Document (CCD) will be the dominant standard in the future. The leading competing standard, Continuity of Care Record (CCR) appears to be fading with one vendor stating that virtually no client is asking for CCR [...]
Kick Starting HIEs: What Meaningful Use Asks for, What Feds are Willing to Pay
Posted in HIE, tagged ARRA, HITECH Act on February 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The release of draft Meaningful Use (MU) requirements at the end of December, finally provides clarity to what will be required of providers receiving ARRA funding under the HITECH Act to meet the 2011 objectives. Even though there are 25 specific requirements, the health information exchange (HIE) requirements were scaled back significantly from the original [...]
Acquisitions Creating White Hot Market for Healthcare IT
Posted in EHR, EMR, eRx, HIT, tagged acquisitions, ARRA, healthcare IT, HITECH Act, meaningful use on February 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Since the beginning of 2010 there has been a series of acquisitions in healthcare IT (HIT) market, which recently culminated in one of the largest, IBM’s acquisition of Initiate. Triggering this activity is the massive amount of federal spending on HIT, (stimulus funding via ARRA which depending on how you count it, adds up to [...]
HIT Market White Hot
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIT, tagged acquisitions, acquistion, healthcare IT, HIMSS, HIT on February 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Doing some quick analysis of the healthcare IT market and have uncovered some 17 HIT software acquisitions since beginning of year. Is this but a lead up to the big industry confab, HIMSS that begins in a few short weeks? Certainly, the market is in desperate need of consolidation. Recent actions are likely but a [...]
IBM Strengthens Healthcare Play, Picks up Initiate
Posted in EHR, HIE, HIT, Microsoft, tagged acquisition, ARRA, HITECH Act, IBM, Initiate, Oracle on February 3, 2010 | 6 Comments »
This morning, IBM announced that it will acquire leading healthcare Master Data Management (MDM) vendor, Initiate for an undisclosed sum. The healthcare IT (HIT) sector is white hot right now so it is likely IBM paid a pretty penny for Initiate, the clear healthcare market leader in Master Patient Index (MPI) technology. Combining Initiate sales [...]
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