(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 »
Who’s Data is it Anyway?
Posted in consumer health, mHealth, PHR, policy, Privacy, Security, tagged personal health information, PHI on February 13, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Chilmark Research tends to shy away from the thorny, nearly intractable issues of privacy and security of Personal Health Information (PHI) (we’ll leave that to the lawyers and policy wonks to figure out). However one thing is very clear: As we continue to conduct more and more of our daily activities, both business and personal, [...]
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 [...]
Free February
Posted in consumer health, Dossia, Google Health, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHR on February 2, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Let you in on a little secret. February happens to be the month in which I was born. So to celebrate, I’m giving you dear readers a birthday gift. For the month of February you can get a free copy of the full report: iPHR Market Report Analysis & Trends. Be forewarned that this report is [...]
Welcomed Changes for 2012
Posted in Cloud Computing, consumer health, EHR, Google, Google Health, HealthVault, HIE, mHealth, Microsoft, PHR, Privacy, telehealth on January 31, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Since its start in 2007, Chilmark Research has kept a fairly low profile as analyst firms go, focusing on a few discrete domains of healthcare IT (HIT). First there was patient and consumer engagement that led to the publication of our first report on Personal Health Records (PHRs). That first research effort led to a [...]
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. [...]
mHealth: Seemingly Stuck in Neutral
Posted in Cloud Computing, consumer health, mHealth, telehealth, telemedicine, tagged mHealth Summit, mobisante, WellDoc on December 9, 2011 | 16 Comments »
As many readers know, Chilmark Research has been a strong proponent of mHealth for several years. Despite this enthusiasm, we sometimes come away from a conference, such as this week’s mHealth Summit, with the feeling that the only ones making a living with mHealth are conference organizers. Maybe it was the format of this particular [...]
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 [...]
Trickle Down Health or Health 2.0 Impressions
Posted in Cloud Computing, consumer health, Dossia, EHR, Health Cloud, mHealth, policy, SaaS, tagged Health 2.0, PaaS on September 30, 2011 | 19 Comments »
Another year, another Health 2.0 under the belt. This being the fourth time attending it is interesting to see how this event and its participants have evolved. Like many things in life, some things at Health 2.0 have changed, some have not, most for the better, but there remain some troubling aspects to this event [...]
