Since its initial launch to much fanfare, Google Health has struggled to be relevant. Since its formal launch in May 2008, Google Health has not dedicated the resources to build out this platform into a truly engaging ecosystem of applications to assist the consumer in managing their health or the health of a loved one. [...]
Archive for May, 2010
Google’s Irrelevancy Leading to Demise?
Posted in consumer health, Google, Google Health, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHR, tagged Dossia, PHI on May 28, 2010 | 41 Comments »
Subdued in Seattle
Posted in consumer health, EHR, HealthVault, HIE, Microsoft, tagged ARRA, CHC2010, Connected Health on May 24, 2010 | 5 Comments »
What was at one time an event focusing on visionary statements and a desire to attract the developer community has transitioned too much more of a true user conference and with this transition, Microsoft’s 3rd annual healthcare event, Connected Health Conference (CHC), was more subdued focusing on execution more than vision. Microsoft’s first CHC was [...]
Seattle Bound
Posted in HealthVault, HIE, HIT, Microsoft, tagged Amalga, PaaS on May 17, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Tomorrow, I’ll be heading to Seattle to attend Microsoft’s annual Connected Health event. Last year’s event provided some useful insight’s into Microsoft’s international intentions which were most recently reflected in their partnership with Siemens to take HealthVault to Germany. Last year’s event was also prophetic in Microsoft’s deepening intent to serve the provider market. Based [...]
Where’s the Beef?
Posted in EHR, EMR, Health Cloud, HIE, Microsoft, tagged iNexx, Medicity, PaaS on May 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Awhile back, Chilmark received a briefing from Medicity about their forthcoming iNexx platform. We liked what we saw. iNexx fit our model of where the HIE and more broadly, the HIT market is headed, particularly for the far-flung small ambulatory practices that make up the vast percentage of where most people receive their care. It [...]
Intuit Makes a Move, Acquires Medfusion
Posted in consumer health, PHR, tagged Intuit, Medfusion, Quicken Health on May 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, Intuit announced its intent to acquire HIT vendor, Medfusion, for roughly $91M. This is an interesting and savvy move by Intuit. Interesting in that Intuit is signaling an intent to more directly enter the small physician market. Chilmark also sees this as a savvy move as this acquisition gives Intuit a relatively inexpensive point [...]
Shedding a Light on HIT – Beacon Awards
Posted in consumer health, EHR, HIE, HIT, mHealth, PHR, policy, telehealth, telemedicine, tagged ARRA, Beacon Community, HITECH Act on May 10, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Last week, the White House finally announced the 15 Beacon Award recipients who will split the $220M (roughly $15M each) to effectively leverage HIT to improve healthcare delivery in their communities. While many a community waited patiently for this announcement that was originally scheduled for sometime in March, it appears that the feds, and in [...]
Even with Incentives, Docs May Forgo EHR Adoption
Posted in consumer health, EHR, EMR, tagged ARRA, EHR adoption, HITECH Act on May 7, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The federal government, via the HITECH Act, and many an EHR vendor are hoping for broad adoption of EHRs in the goal to digitize the healthcare sector, which today is honestly, pretty abysmal. And why is EHR adoption so low? Pretty simple really, EHR vendors have not adequately demonstrated to the market that there is [...]
WebMD’s Private Portal Business Continues Slide
Posted in PHR, tagged consumer health, PHR, WebMD on May 4, 2010 | 4 Comments »
WebMD announced first quarter earnings today that showed continued lackluster results for their “Private Portal” division, slipping roughly 5% year over year from $23M to $21.8M. Now one could argue that the overall decline in employment due to the recession is to blame for the drop in clients from 134 to 131 in Q1-2010, but [...]
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