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. [...]
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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 »
Siemens Jumps into HIE Waters
Posted in Acquisition, Analytics, HIE, HIT, Microsoft, tagged 4medica, AllScripts, Axolotl, Care Evolution, Certified Data systems, dbMotion, HealthUnity, IBM, ICA, ICW, InterSystems, Kryptiq, Medicity, MobileMD, Oracle, Orion Health, Siemens, Wellogic on November 4, 2011 | 19 Comments »
Acquisition fever has set in and they’re dropping like flies, independent HIE vendors that is. Earlier today, Siemens announced its intent to acquire enterprise HIE vendor MobileMD. So in little over a year we have seen IBM snag Initiate, Axolotl fall into the hands of Ingenix/United Health Group (Ingenix is now known as OptumInsight), Medicity [...]
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 [...]
Who Will be the Salesforce.com of Healthcare IT?
Posted in Acquisition, Analytics, Cloud Computing, CMS, EHR, EMR, mHealth, Microsoft, tagged Axolotl, Covisint, CRM, Dreamforce 2011, Kryptiq, Medicity, Oracle, Salesforce.com, Siebel, SureScripts on September 7, 2011 | 24 Comments »
Last week was the massive Salesforce.com user conference Dreamforce (massive in that there were more attendees at Dreamforce then this year’s HIMSS!). We’ve been reviewing more than a few articles and writings written by those who attended the event. In the few short years of its existence (~13yrs) Salesforce.com has become one of the leading [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
