(Note: This is the second of a two-part post.) Keeping it Local This is most representative of the status quo and the most realistic path forward for the vast majority of payers who typically operate at the local level. In this scenario, one or more health plans in a regional market partner with other community [...]
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Forecast and Ramifications of Payers in the HIE Market: Part Two
Posted in ACO, consumer health, EHR, health portals, HIE, HIT, policy, Privacy, tagged BCBS, Lumeris, NaviNet, payers on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Is Direct Undercutting the Viability of RHIOs?
Posted in ACO, Analytics, consumer health, HIE, policy, RHIO, tagged Medicity Project Direct on February 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Last week, a discussion got started on Google + by Brian Ahier about whether or not ONC’s aggressive support of Direct is undercutting many a Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO). What got this whole conversation started was an article in the January issue of JAMIA titled: Shifts in the architecture of the Nationwide Health Information Network. While [...]
Predictions 2012: Not What You Think
Posted in ACO, Analytics, CCD, CDA, Cloud Computing, consumer health, EHR, EMR, HIE, mHealth, Security, standards on January 11, 2012 | 8 Comments »
Admittedly, our predictions for 2011 were modest. Most of those predictions were logical and did not take a whole lot of imagination to envision thus our success rate, 7 “hits”, 2 “toss-ups” and 2 “misses was quite high. And though are biggest accomplishment, predicting Blumenthal’s departure just a few short weeks before he actually announced [...]
Looking Back on 2011 – What A Strange Year It’s Been
Posted in ACO, Acquisition, Analytics, Cloud Computing, consumer health, EHR, EMR, Health Cloud, health portals, HealthVault, HIE, mHealth, Microsoft, PHR, policy, RHIO, SaaS, standards, telehealth, tagged Direct Project, GE, HIMSS'12, mHealth on December 23, 2011 | 4 Comments »
It is almost becoming the norm to say that it has been another tumultuous year in the healthcare IT market. Market consolidation, pushback on timelines, growing chorus from IT departments that enough is enough against the backdrop of the political circus in Washington and across the land as we prepare for the 2012 election year. [...]
Microsoft Bows Out of the Clinical Market
Posted in ACO, consumer health, EHR, HealthVault, HIE, Microsoft, PHR, tagged Amalga, GE, Orion Health, Qualibria on December 8, 2011 | 20 Comments »
Today, GE and Microsoft announced a joint venture (JV) that will lead to the formation of a new company (NewCo) targeting the clinical healthcare market sector. The NewCo will be located near Microsoft HQ in Redmond, WA, start with roughly 700 employees and combine the remaining Microsoft clinical products, Amalga UIS and the former Sentillion products [...]
Orion Strengthens Portfolio & MSFT Gains HIE Partner
Posted in ACO, Acquisition, EHR, HIE, HIT, Microsoft, tagged AllScripts, Amalga HIS, Amalga UIS, Axolotl Care Evolution, dbMotion, Orion Health, Thomson Reuters on October 19, 2011 | 21 Comments »
On Monday, New Zealand based Orion Health announced that it would acquire the mothballed Health Information Services (HIS) assets of Microsoft, Amalga HIS. In the same announcement, Orion and Microsoft also announced a partnership for Microsoft’s healthcare analytics solution Amalga UIS. Microsoft, during its HIT buying binge days a few years back had picked up [...]
Dr. Watson I Presume
Posted in ACO, Analytics, Cloud Computing, Health Cloud, HIT, telemedicine, tagged IBM, Watson, WellPoint on October 18, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Little over a month ago, IBM and WellPoint announced an agreement wherein WellPoint will deploy IBM’s latest and greatest super computer and artificial intelligence mega-mind Watson. Watson’s claim to fame was its ability to beat the human Jeopardy champions much like Big Blue beat reigning chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. Since that Jeopardy match, IBM [...]
EHRs Deliver the Goods, or at Least the Quality
Posted in ACO, EHR, EMR, HIT, policy, tagged ACO, diabetes, NEJM, P4P, PCMH, quality on September 1, 2011 | 8 Comments »
There have been a number of research studies published that question the value of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), particularly as it pertains to improving quality of care and ultimately outcomes. Chilmark has always viewed these reports with a certain amount of skepticism. Simple logic leads us to conclude that a properly installed (including attention to [...]
Trends in Patient Engagement
Posted in ACO, consumer health, Dossia, EHR, health portals, HealthVault, HIE, mHealth, Microsoft, PHP, tagged Centricity, Epic, Intuit Health, MEDSEEK, My Chart, patient engagement, patient portals, WellDoc on August 25, 2011 | 5 Comments »
As part of the process of setting our broader research agenda at Chilmark Research, we do a significant amount of secondary research combined with more limited, but highly focused primary research. We use this research to identify the “white spaces” where there appears to be a demand for some thoughtful, in-depth research and reporting that [...]
HIE Market Snippets
Posted in ACO, Acquisition, HIE, HIT, HL 7, PCMH, PHR, policy, RHIO, SaaS, standards on August 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In January, we released our HIE Market Report: Analysis & Trends which was extremely well-received. Sales have exceeded our rather optimistic projections – great for us. But what we are most proud of and honestly what keeps us going is that others are also gaining value from this report, especially those looking to purchase an [...]
