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 [...]
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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 »
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 & [...]
Is Partnership for Patients Just Deja Vu?
Posted in CMS, consumer health, policy, tagged Partnership for Patients on April 14, 2011 | 4 Comments »
On Tuesday, to a tremendous amount of fanfare, HHS announced it will invest $1B in the Partnership for Patients. The press release is certainly buzzword compliant having all the wonderful terms that will endear others to join. And join they have, coming from all corners including employers such as GE, Honeywell and Walmart to small [...]
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 »
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 [...]
Learning from Mistakes: The Minnesota Story
Posted in CMS, EHR, HIE, HIT, policy on March 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Chilmark rarely references other reports and articles as the foundation for a post on this site. Once in a great while we come across a story that is just too good to pass over. Reporter Michael Krigsman, who writes the IT Failures column for ZDnet has just published such a story. The story gives a [...]
Smashing Myths & Assumptions: PHR for Urban Diabetes Care
Posted in ACO, CMS, consumer health, health portals, mHealth, PCMH, PHR, tagged chronic care, diabetes, patient portal on November 12, 2010 | 19 Comments »
There remains an unhealthy level of skepticism in the market as to whether or not consumers will use a personal health record (PHR). While a certain level of skepticism is healthy in any market, the level to which it is laid towards PHRs is unwarranted and likely more a function of ignorance then malicious intent. [...]
TeleHealth Still Waiting…
Posted in CMS, consumer health, mHealth, telehealth, telemedicine, tagged Connected Health Symposium, ZEO on October 25, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Last week’s Connected Health Symposium was once again an event about a sector just waiting to break-out of perpetual pilot stage. This was my 4th Connected for Health Symposium (it holds a special place in my heart as this was the very first HIT-related conference I ever attended) but in each and everyone, a dominant, [...]
Letting the Data Flow; Part One
Posted in CMS, consumer health, EHR, HIE, HIT, PHR, policy, tagged Accountable Care Organization, ACO, health information exchange, Patient Centered Medical Home, REC, Regional Extension Centers on October 11, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Making clinical data liquid permeated a series of events I attended last week during Health Innovation Week in San Francisco. Monday and Tuesday found me at the HIE/REC conference. Wednesday was HealthCamp at Kaiser-Permanente’s Garfield Research Center (KP was extremely gracious in hosting this event and the opportunity to get a tour of the facilities [...]
Meaningful Use Rules Drop Today
Posted in CMS, consumer health, EHR, EMR, HIT, policy, standards, tagged healthcare reform, HITECH Act, Innovation Center, meaningful use on July 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Nearly a year after the HIT Policy Committee’s meaningful use recommendations were approved by ONC chief Dr. David Blumenthal, an extensive comment period that solicited some 2,200 comments, the final Stage One meaningful use rules will be released today at 10:00am. Details for today’s conference call are: WHAT: CMS and ONC will host a press [...]
