Chilmark Research is a healthcare industry analyst firm performing market research and analysis on healthcare information technology (HIT) adoption and use. There are two primary factors that set Chilmark Research apart from other firms:
1) Deep technical and market expertise of IT adoption trends with particularly emphasis on what drives successful market adoption of new technologies. We combine proven research methodologies with this expertise to deliver cogent market reports for our customers.
2) We focus the vast majority of our research efforts on what we believe will be the most critical long-term trend, growth of consumerism in the healthcare sector. Therefore, our research primarily addresses consumer-facing HIT solutions. This focus enables us to provide our customers with unmatched depth of knowledge on the most critical trends in this sector.
Some current areas of research focus include:
- Personal Health Records (PHRs) and more broadly, Personal Health Systems (e.g., Dossia, Google Health and HealthVault). In May 2008, we published our first major study, iPHR Market Report, Analysis and Trends which provided a comprehensive overview of the PHR market including in-depth profiles on 20 leading PHR vendors (see: Available Reports).
- Consumer-centric, healthcare-focused social networking sites that help consumers gather and share information within an online community. Particular focus of research is on what is actualy working (generating sustainable revenue and traffic) and what is not.
- Confluence of consumer-facing HIT and biometric devices to facilitate healthcare management. This area of interest also overlaps with telehealth services, which will increasingly be used as Internet services and broadband become increasingly pervasive in the home.
- Enabling transactional services, via the Internet, between consumer and physician. This not only includes appointment scheduling and fulfilling eRx refill requests but includes other services such as eConsults, second opinions and the like that are increasingly being offered over the Web.
- Enabling technologies and services that will assist the consumer in choosing a provider whether here or abroad. Research includes provider rating services, cost and quality metrics and medical tourism.
- Other areas we will track include: RHIOs. HIEs and Health Data Banks, Direct to Consumer (DTC) genetic testing (includes genetic data archiving), personalized medicine and IT tools to enable.
These factors and others are just beginning to alter the healthcare landscape but their influence is growing rapidly and they will ultimately redefine healthcare across the patient/consumer-provider-payer-employer continuum. How healthcare providers and payers respond to this changing dynamic as well as what opportunities such changes will create for all healthcare industry stakeholders is our primary research and services focus.
Contact Info:
Phone: 617.615.9344
Address: Chilmark Research, 5 JFK Street, Suite 404, Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: info@chilmarkresearch dot com
Your blog, HIT Analyst will be added as a link on our site, Healthtrain Express
Hello.
I found this blog through a reply you posted at Hospital Impact (The Facebook/iPhone Generation and Healthcare).
I’m also a systems analyst working in the healthcare field after transitioning from manufacturing. I’m glad to see that I’m not the only person who finds the work interesting and fulfilling enough to blog about it.
I’ve added you to the Health & Home tab of my MyYahoo!, and will put this blog on my blogroll at The Healthcare Information Systems Blog.
I’m looking forward to reading more about your experiences.
Hello,
Open MedicDrive,a collaborative that helps towards educating about the role of Health care Information Technology in Personal Health Record Management for Consumers.
Thanks
Tim
Hi John,
Actually enjoy reading a Health IT blog that actually provides some detailed evaluation and feedback of specific products/applications. Your content is pretty spot on and I am willing to bet that you will continue to get a lot more eyeballs on this blog if you continue to spot such interesting commentary on a regular basis.
Matt
Hi John,
I’ve enjoyed reading your take on the telehealth scene, particularly Is Telehealth Gaining Momentum? which I am about to reference on Telecare Aware. Would you like to contribute a ‘Telecare Soapbox’ item to the site sometime? Have a look at the items posted there already.
Cheers,
Steve
Very helpful review of the CITL report, hopefully it will achieve broad readership.
Thanks,
Linda
I’d like to add Chilmark Research’s blog to the blogroll of Straight Talk (http://blog.srssoft.com).
Would a link swap be of interest to you?
Thanks,
Jeremy
Do you know how many people have a healthvault account and how many people have a google health account?
I thank you for your help
Do you know how much healthvault implementation and google health implementation cost?
Thank you in advance
I would love an opportunity to review and discuss my little “hobby” that may (or may not) grow up one day into a service.
I absolutely agree PHR’s will never really be very useful until it saves the healthcare service provider time and communicates ‘what to do’ and ‘what you need to know’ information to the patient – and also strongly feel that we need a PHP (Personal Health PLATFORM.
I am using Adobe Acrobat PDF files as a “tinkertoy” prototype sample/example of this concept – where the PDF is actually more an “application” – that is, this PDF is an interactive form with a database connection. The PDF form can be used both offlne (where no internet is available) or online.
http://www.myhealthcarestuff.com/presentation.html
Would be happy to review this anytime with anyone.
Michael Jahn
Jahn & Associates
PDF Conversion Specialist
1824 North Garvin Avenue
Simi Valley
California 93065
Office: (805) 527 8130
Cell: (805) 217 6741
Email: michaelejahn@gmail.com