In Monday’s post, Chilmark reflected upon a piece that Peter Hudson, co-founder of Healthagen, the developers of mHealth app iTriage wrote for mobihealthnews. In that article, Peter talked about the utility of an mHealth-based PHR (iTriage recently launched such capabilities), but in our post, we countered that today, it is still far too difficult for [...]
Archive for June, 2010
Consumer Challenge: Creating a Longitudinal Record
Posted in consumer health, Google Health, HealthVault, HIT, mHealth, PHR on June 28, 2010 | 8 Comments »
A very good eZine on all things mobile health, is mobihealthnews. Brian and his partner Joe have done an excellent job of following many of the developing trends in this sector and occasionally, will have a guest author a column. On Friday, one of the co-founders of the iPhone app, iTriage, Peter Hudson, wrote a [...]
Going Stealth, MSFT Brings HealthVault to UK
Posted in consumer health, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHP, PHR, policy, tagged Amalga, New York Presbyterian on June 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Today, Microsoft, via a blog post by its UK leader John Coulthard, announced the launch of HealthVault in the United Kingdom. Yesterday, Chilmark received a briefing from Microsoft’s Director of International Development, Mark Johnston who provided us the back-story on this launch and how this launch is different from Microsoft’s previous international forays in Canada [...]
Ramping Up for MU Rules, CMS Launches New Site
Posted in EHR, EMR, policy, tagged ARRA, CMS, HHS, HITECH Act, meaningful use on June 21, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Today, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched a new site that is basically an everything you wanted to know about meaningful use, ARRA, the HITECH Act, certified EHRs, etc., but were afraid to ask. This is a reasonable attempt by CMS to get as much information online, in one location, that addresses [...]
Here it Comes, Another B2B
Posted in PHR, tagged B2B, cycling, Harpoon Brewery on June 18, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Tomorrow, with temperatures here in New England expected to reach 90+ degrees, I try to stay hydrated, full of electrolytes and may even down some pickle juice all in an attempt to keep leg cramps at bay as I do the annual Harpoon Brewery to Brewery (B2B) ride. The roughly 8 hour ride, which begins [...]
Another Survey, Another Doh!
Posted in consumer health, EHR, EMR, PHR on June 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Harris Interactive and HealthDay announced the results of their latest consumer survey on consumer attitudes towards electronic medical records. This is but just one more survey that seems to state the same thing over and over again, that there is an ever so slight rise in consumer use of such technologies, but really nothing to [...]
Healthcare Reform, Payment Models & Acquisitions
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIT, tagged AllScripts, athenahealth, Centricity Advance, eClinicalWorks, Eclipsys, Epic, Greenway, NextGen, Practicefusion, Sage on June 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Today, GE announced the release of Centricity Advance, their solution for the ambulatory market. Centricity Advance is basically a build-out/rebranding of MedPlexus an SaaS EHR solution vendor that GE acquired in March 2010. GE now joins others (see below) in the EHR market who are striving to provide a complete acute to ambulatory EHR portfolio. [...]
AllScripts+Eclipsys, Who Loses?
Posted in Analytics, EHR, EMR, HIE, HIT, tagged acquisition, AllScripts, ARRA, dbMotion, eClinicalWorks, Eclipsys, Medicity, NextGen on June 9, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Today, leading ambulatory EHR vendor AllScripts announced that it will merge (it’s really acquire) with one of the larger acute care EHR vendors, Eclipsys creating one of the largest EHR vendors in the market with some 180,000 physicians using their solutions. This acquisition is being driven not by ARRA and all the taxpayer dollars flowing [...]
A Bite of the Apple
Posted in consumer health, Google, tagged Android, Apple, clinical groupware, iOS4.0, iPhone 4, mHealth on June 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday, with much fanfare, Steve Jobs took the stage at Apple’s annual developer conference and announced the pending release of the next iteration of the iPhone. While there has been plenty of press regarding this release, both before (and Apple’s Dark Lord tactics) and after, Job’s presentation also highlighted a number of facts and figures [...]
Telus Goes with Different Model for HealthVault
Posted in consumer health, Google Health, HealthVault, PHR, tagged Amalga, Telus, Telus Health Space on June 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Unlike the free access that one has here in the US to sign-up for and use Microsoft’s HealthVault for managing personal health information (PHI), Telus will “licensed” Telus health space to providers, agencies, provinces, etc. who will then offer it to their constituents. Telus health space is the Canadian instance of HealthVault, which Telus licensed [...]
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