The rapid adoption of smartphones and now touch-screen tablets (e.g., iPad) by clinicians will trigger enormous growth in the use of mHealth Apps within healthcare enterprises, with the market for mHealth in the enterprise projected to reach $1.7B by end of year 2014. Similar to the hockey stick growth for mobile shown in the slide [...]
Archive for November, 2010
mHealth in the Enterprise Set to Explode
Posted in EHR, mHealth, tagged ARRA, CDS, charge capture, CPOE, HIS, HITECH Act, iOS, iPad, iPhone, meaningful use, smartphone, tablet, touchscreen tablet on November 22, 2010 | 14 Comments »
State of the Web & Mobile Device Impact
Posted in mHealth, tagged adoption trends, Internet, mHealth, mobile on November 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday, Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker gave her annual presentation on the State of the Web 2010. As always, she has done her homework with some excellent stats presented that draw some provokative conclusions. While this presentation looks at the broader market, it is not too hard to start connecting the dots and apply some [...]
Smashing Myths & Assumptions: PHR for Urban Diabetes Care
Posted in ACO, CMS, consumer health, health portals, mHealth, PCMH, PHR, tagged chronic care, diabetes, patient portal on November 12, 2010 | 19 Comments »
There remains an unhealthy level of skepticism in the market as to whether or not consumers will use a personal health record (PHR). While a certain level of skepticism is healthy in any market, the level to which it is laid towards PHRs is unwarranted and likely more a function of ignorance then malicious intent. [...]
mHealth: Is it a Market?
Posted in consumer health, mHealth, policy, standards, telehealth, telemedicine, tagged mHealth Summit on November 10, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Been attending the mHealth Summit for the last 3 days and an over-arching theme has been: mHealth is unlikely to ever become a market in its own right. Backing up this claim have been the countless projects/products being presented at this event with very few having a model that is scalable across a broad population [...]
What do WebMD’s Q3 Numbers Tell Us?
Posted in consumer health, Dossia, Google Health, HealthVault, PHR, tagged BCBS-MA, employer, iPhone, payer, WebMD on November 4, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Yesterday, the big 800lb gorilla in the PHR market, WebMD announced 3rd quarter earnings that were quite mixed. While its public portal business continues to see strong growth in uniques (now over 83M visitors/month) and advertising revenues that grew 26%, its private portal business continues to produce lackluster results, with flat revenue and holding steady [...]
Get Out & Vote
Posted in policy on November 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
One would have to be a hermit, living in a cave without a radio, TV, newspaper subscription, etc., to not know that today is election day. The barrage of ads and rhetoric has been unprecedented with some estimating that up to $8B was spent on campaigns this year and this was only a mid-term election. [...]
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