Last week an amazing event occurred. Ten young innovative companies that were chosen from nearly 30 applicants had the opportunity to sit down and make their pitch to 10 of the largest healthcare organizations in the northeast region. Through speed dating sessions of 15 minutes each and a voting and weighting process, ultimately two innovators [...]
Archive for May, 2011
Matches Made in Philly
Posted in ACO, Analytics, consumer health, HIE, PHR on May 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Rational Thought Infects HITECH
Posted in ACO, EHR, EMR, policy, tagged HITECH Act, meaningful use on May 19, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Couple of weeks back the HIT Policy Committee began to seriously consider what a delay of Stage Two meaningful use (MU) might look like. This push for a delay is being driven in large part by EHR vendors. The problem is one of timing. While Stage Two rules are to be released on June 8, [...]
Musings on PHRs & Consumer Engagement
Posted in ACO, consumer health, Dossia, Google Health, HealthVault, PHP, PHR, tagged HITECH Act, meaningful use on May 16, 2011 | 27 Comments »
The recent post on Google Health going into the deep freeze has solicited a number of emails, including some from the press. In one of those emails a reporter had spoken to several industry thought leaders to garner their opinions which follow: Consumers will not sign on to most Personal Health Platforms (PHPs) or services [...]
Google Health Put in Stasis
Posted in consumer health, Google, Google Health, PHR on May 9, 2011 | 17 Comments »
About a year ago we posted a piece that basically summed up Google Health as on its death bed. Google, of course was quick to defend itself saying that Google Health was very much alive and well. We even had a long conversation with the senior leadership of Google Health who told us they were [...]
Microsoft HSG Bets Future on Amalga
Posted in ACO, Analytics, Health Cloud, HealthVault, Microsoft, RHIO, tagged Amalga on May 3, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Microsoft’s Health Solutions Group (HSG), which has straddled the fence with consumer-facing (HealthVault) and corporate-facing (Amalga), is increasingly moving to the corporate side of the fence. Not that surprising considering that the consumer market continues to struggle (Google Health is in virtual mothball state, consumer adoption of HealthVault is nothing to write home about) and [...]
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