The Health Information Exchange (HIE) market is the Wild West right now. Vendors are telling us that they are seeing an unprecedented level of activity both for private and public HIEs. Private HIEs are being set-up by large and small healthcare organizations to more tightly align affiliated physicians to a hospital or IDN to drive [...]
Archive for July, 2010
HIEs in the Public Interest
Posted in consumer health, HIE, policy, tagged healthcare reform, HITECH Act, IDN on July 29, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Microsoft Pulls Plug on Amalga HIS
Posted in EHR, EMR, Microsoft on July 22, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Today, Microsoft officially announced that it is shutting down operations and sales for Amalga HIS. Amalga HIS was the former Global 2000 EMR that Microsoft acquired roughly two years ago. Global 2000′s claim to fame was being the EMR for the major medical tourism hospital, Bumrungad International, based in Thailand. I never liked the acquisition [...]
Telecom’s Tepid Plays in HIE Market
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIE, HIT, RHIO, tagged AT&T, Healthcare Community Online, Verizon on July 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The telecom industry makes its money delivering bits and bytes. Therefore, it is not too surprising that the two major players here in the US, AT&T and Verizon are placing some bets in the healthcare sector. Primary among those bets are enabling telehealth (both have been perennial sponsors of the Partners Connected for Health Symposium), [...]
Meaningful Use Perspectives & Resources
Posted in consumer health, EHR, EMR, HIE, policy, Privacy, Security, standards, tagged Blumenthal, Halamka, HITECH Act, meaningful use on July 15, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Everyone seems to have an opinion, or at least has written something, about the final Meaningful Use (MU) Rules that were released on July 13th. Of the multitude of posts and articles out there on the net, there the top three to get you started are: 1) ONC Chief, David Blumenthal’s article in the New [...]
Meaningful Use Rules Drop Today
Posted in CMS, consumer health, EHR, EMR, HIT, policy, standards, tagged healthcare reform, HITECH Act, Innovation Center, meaningful use on July 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Nearly a year after the HIT Policy Committee’s meaningful use recommendations were approved by ONC chief Dr. David Blumenthal, an extensive comment period that solicited some 2,200 comments, the final Stage One meaningful use rules will be released today at 10:00am. Details for today’s conference call are: WHAT: CMS and ONC will host a press [...]
Buried Under HIE Pile
Posted in HIE on July 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As frequent visitors to this site know, Chilmark Research is putting together a report on the HIE market. Report was moving along nicely, that is until the one I had hired to help me with it, was recruited by a client of Chilmark’s into a full-time position. While I am truly happy for him, it [...]
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