Chilmark Research has not had a very good feeling about Google Health for well over a year now. Back in early May of this year we felt that Google had all but given up and had put Google Health in stasis. Today, Google made it official, Google Health has a little more than six months [...]
Archive for June, 2011
RIP Google Health
Posted in CCR, consumer health, EHR, EMR, Google, Google Health, Health Cloud, HealthVault, Microsoft, standards on June 24, 2011 | 55 Comments »
Looking at Healthcare Through Payer Lenses: Part Two
Posted in ACO, consumer health, PHR, policy, tagged Affordable Care Act, AHIP, AHIP Institute, healthcare reform, HIX, payers, PCMH on June 22, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Payers, as with the rest of the healthcare industry, have a lot on their plate right now. Healthcare reform, via the Affordable Care Act (ACA) continues its march forward despite legal and political uncertainty. Struggling to define the payer role in Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), understanding the impact of Health Insurance Exchanges (HIXs) on their [...]
Looking at Healthcare Through Payer Lenses: Part One
Posted in ACO, CMS, consumer health, HIT, policy, tagged Affordable Care Act, AHIP, health insurance exchange, HIX, payers on June 19, 2011 | 18 Comments »
Attending the annual health insurers confab (AHIP Institute) last week gave one some insight as to the challenges this part of the healthcare industry is facing. There were plenty of sessions on addressing data analytics for everything from population health management to fraud, a number of other sessions on consumer engagement, disease management, health & [...]
Additional Thoughts on Thomson Reuters
Posted in Acquisition, Analytics, HIE, HIT, tagged EMC, Reed Elsevier, Thomson Reuters, Trizetto on June 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Last week we posted an analysis of the pending sale of Thomson Reuters’s Healthcare unit. Since publishing that analysis Chilmark has received feedback, privately, from several, extremely knowledgeable people as to their thoughts on this sale and others who companies who may be equally interested in acquiring the healthcare business from Thomson Reuters. Below is a quick [...]
Likely Suitors as Thomson Reuters Exits Healthcare
Posted in ACO, Acquisition, Analytics, Cloud Computing, EHR, HIE, HIT, Microsoft, SaaS on June 9, 2011 | 15 Comments »
Earlier this week, Thomson Reuters (TR) announced that it intends to sell off its healthcare unit. A logical first response is: What they heck, why would they sell right now when the healthcare market is so hot and shows no signs of letting up? Thomson Reuters is a well-respected brand in healthcare and as healthcare organizations [...]
HealthVault Continues to Build, & Google Health Still Useful
Posted in consumer health, Google Health, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHR, PHS on June 3, 2011 | 6 Comments »
This week, Microsoft’s HealthVault added a number of new enhancements to its platform including support for mobile access (only Windows 7 today, but they plan to launch support for Android and Apple’s iOS within the next few weeks). Wonder how it will look on the iPad? HealthVault will now auto-reconcile CCR and CCD data feeds [...]
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