On March 31st, the HHS’s Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) dropped its neutron bomb (proposed Accountable Care Organization (ACO) rules, caution PDF) on the healthcare industry. Much like the neutron bomb, the proposed rules will leave buildings standing, but any healthcare organization (HCO) planning to become a successful ACO will need to decimate [...]
Archive for the ‘Analytics’ Category
Robust Processes Supported by Health IT Core to ACO Success
Posted in ACO, Analytics, CMS, consumer health, EHR, EMR, HIE, mHealth, PCMH, policy, standards, telehealth, telemedicine, tagged Accountable Care Organization, Medicare on April 4, 2011 | 4 Comments »
HIMSS’11: Setting Expectations
Posted in ACO, Analytics, EHR, eRx, HealthVault, HIE, HIT, mHealth, Microsoft, tagged athenahealth, Carefx, HIMSS'11 on February 25, 2011 | 25 Comments »
Over a 1,000 exhibitors, some 30,000+ attendees and I come away from HIMSS, again, thinking is this all there is? Where is the innovation that the Obama administration i.e., Sec. Sebellius and Dr. Blumenthal both touted in their less than inspiring keynotes on Wednesday morn? Maybe I had my blinders on, maybe I was looking [...]
2011 Predictions: MU Goes Tactical, ACO Strategic
Posted in ACO, Analytics, consumer health, EHR, HIE, mHealth, PCMH, PHR, telehealth on February 2, 2011 | 15 Comments »
In the Healthcare IT (HIT) market, 2010 was the year of meaningful use (MU). Healthcare organizations (HCOs) of all sizes developed plans, began making IT modifications and began adopting the technology they needed to meet Stage One MU requirements and subsequently receive incentive payments, some of which began being disbursed in late 2010. As we [...]
Defining a Maturity Model for HIEs
Posted in Analytics, Health Cloud, HIE, HIT, tagged healthcare, maturity model on January 27, 2011 | 29 Comments »
Before entering the convoluted healthcare IT sector, I had worked in the manufacturing sector both as an IT analyst and in corporate strategy for Europe’s second largest enterprise software company. In those many years I learn quite a bit about not only how to effectively deploy large enterprise software systems (SAP, PeopleSoft, i2, PTC, SSA, [...]
HIE Report is Released
Posted in Analytics, EHR, Health Cloud, health portals, HIE, Microsoft, SaaS, tagged Axolotl, Carefx, Covisint, health information exchange, InterSystems, MEDecision, Medicity, MEDSEEK, MobileMD, Orion Health, RelayHealth on January 24, 2011 | 5 Comments »
The long awaited, dare I say anticipated HIE Market Report is now complete and ready for purchase. This report, arguably the most comprehensive report yet published on this rapidly evolving market (116pgs, 21 vendors profiled, 0ver 25 tables and figures) will provide the reader with a detailed portrait of today’s HIE Market, its leading vendors, [...]
Analysis: Aetna Jumps into HIE Market Acquiring Medicity
Posted in ACO, Analytics, HIE, HIT, PCMH on December 7, 2010 | 10 Comments »
First it was United Health Group’s (UHG) Ingenix Division’s acquisition of leading HIE vendor (and top competitor to Medicity) Axolotl. Then this morning Aetna counters by acquiring Medicity. In just a few short months these two payers have completely changed the landscape of the HIE market by acquiring the two leading HIE vendors in the [...]
Covisint Dips into Clinical Apps with DocSite Acquisition
Posted in Analytics, HIE, Security, tagged acquisition, Covisint, DocSite on September 24, 2010 | 4 Comments »
On Monday, Covisint announced that it had acquired DocSite. Yesterday, we were finally able to catch-up with Covisint VP Brett Furst to get some background on the acquisition. Following is what we learned and our assessment. Some Background: Covisint was orignally founded by the Big Three auto makers to assist them with their supplier relations [...]
Assessment: Ingenix Makes HIE Move Acquiring Axolotl
Posted in Analytics, EHR, EMR, HIE, HIT, P4P, tagged acquisition, Axolotl, Elysium, Elysium Express, iNexx, Ingenix, Medicity, Microsoft, PaaS on August 23, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Last week, Ingenix announced that it would be acquiring Axolotl. Probably no one was happier than the folks at Gilat Satellite Networks who had invested $4.5M in Axolotl over ten years ago, had written off that investment during the dot-com bust in 2001 and now is looking at getting some $24M in cash plus another [...]
AllScripts+Eclipsys, Who Loses?
Posted in Analytics, EHR, EMR, HIE, HIT, tagged acquisition, AllScripts, ARRA, dbMotion, eClinicalWorks, Eclipsys, Medicity, NextGen on June 9, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Today, leading ambulatory EHR vendor AllScripts announced that it will merge (it’s really acquire) with one of the larger acute care EHR vendors, Eclipsys creating one of the largest EHR vendors in the market with some 180,000 physicians using their solutions. This acquisition is being driven not by ARRA and all the taxpayer dollars flowing [...]
KP Flexing EMR Data for Public Health
Posted in Analytics, EHR, EMR, tagged healthcare, Kaiser Permanente, research on May 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Don’t vaccinate your child for whooping cough and put them at a 23x greater risk of contracting this nasty disease. That is the finding of a research report released today by Kaiser-Permanente (KP). Last week Chilmark Research had the opportunity to speak with the lead researcher, Dr. Jason Glanz of KP on this research project [...]
