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Archive for September, 2010

Is REC a Future Train Wreck

Posted in EHR, EMR, policy, tagged , , on September 29, 2010 | 10 Comments »

Yesterday, HHS’s ONC announced the final two Regional Extension Centers (RECs), one in California and the other for the state of New Hampshire. Much like the Land Grant College Program and the much smaller Sea Grant Program, the HHS RECs have been established to assist in the appropriate adoption and use of technology, in this [...]

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Getting People Out of Their Cars

Posted in PHR, tagged , , , on September 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Boston is a beautiful city with many a European tourist delighting in its Euro-feel, especially the city’s walkability. Literally, you can get around Boston pretty easily on your own two feet.  In fact, over 13% of Boston residents commute to work by walking. That may not seem high, but it is the highest percentage in [...]

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Covisint Dips into Clinical Apps with DocSite Acquisition

Posted in Analytics, HIE, Security, tagged , , on September 24, 2010 | 4 Comments »

On Monday, Covisint announced that it had acquired DocSite. Yesterday, we were finally able to catch-up with Covisint VP Brett Furst to get some background on the acquisition.  Following is what we learned and our assessment. Some Background: Covisint was orignally founded by the Big Three auto makers to assist them with their supplier relations [...]

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HIEs in the Public Interests

Posted in consumer health, HIE, HIT, PHR, policy, tagged , on September 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »

In about an hour’s time I will head downtown to participate in yet another Commonwealth of Massachusetts HIE Consumer Workgroup meeting. The workgroup, formed by the Secretary of Health last Spring, is charged with insuring that the strategic HIE and more broadly, HIT plans for Massachusetts be inclusive of consumers’ future needs. Now what those [...]

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Business Drivers for Mobility in the Enterprise

Posted in EHR, EMR, mHealth, P4P on September 18, 2010 | 8 Comments »

John mentioned in an earlier post, “Is the mHealth hype justified?” how the word ‘mHealth’ has acquired a broad, unwieldy set of definitions.  The mHealth term is now practically useless (except as a buzzword).  In my research to date, I have learned not to approach an interviewee by asking if they want to chat about [...]

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Google Hits Reset Button on Google Health

Posted in consumer health, Dossia, Google, Google Health, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHR, PHS, tagged , , on September 15, 2010 | 22 Comments »

Google Health has seemingly been stuck in neutral almost from the start.  Despite the fanfare of Google’s Eric Schmidt speaking at the big industry confab, HIMSS a couple of years back, an initial beta release with healthcare partner Cleveland Clinic and a host of partners announced once the service was opened to the public in [...]

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Is the mHealth Hype Justified?

Posted in consumer health, Google Health, HealthVault, PHR, telehealth, telemedicine, tagged , , on September 10, 2010 | 13 Comments »

Over the last few weeks there has been a lot of hype regarding mHealth.  In late August Deloitte published an Issue Brief: The Mobile Personal Health Record (mPHR) that led to the conclusion that an mPHR will become the “killer app” healthcare app for the consumer.  Then we have PWC who released their own report: [...]

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Feds Set Example for Data Portability

Posted in CCD, CCR, CMS, consumer health, EHR, HIE, PHR, tagged , , on September 7, 2010 | 19 Comments »

The Personal Health Record (PHR) market is fraught with challenges. First there is the issue of getting personal health information (PHI), which is most often not in a common digital, computable format such as a CCD or CCR-based file. Even when PHI is in a common data standard, such as administrative data (claims data), that [...]

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