When Chilmark Research was founded, the primary area of focus was healthcare IT that was consumer facing, consumer enabling – tools that would help consumers better manage their health and the health of loved ones. This led to our first major study on Personal Health Records (PHRs) published in May 2008. But alas, I was [...]
Archive for the ‘Google Health’ Category
What do WebMD’s Q3 Numbers Tell Us?
Posted in consumer health, Dossia, Google Health, HealthVault, PHR, tagged BCBS-MA, employer, iPhone, payer, WebMD on November 4, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Yesterday, the big 800lb gorilla in the PHR market, WebMD announced 3rd quarter earnings that were quite mixed. While its public portal business continues to see strong growth in uniques (now over 83M visitors/month) and advertising revenues that grew 26%, its private portal business continues to produce lackluster results, with flat revenue and holding steady [...]
On the PHR Front…
Posted in Google, Google Health, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHP, PHR on October 1, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Activity is really heating up here at Chilmark Research. But all that activity is making it difficult to follow all of the changes that are taking place in the market. Let me correct that, not so hard to follow, extremely hard to find the time to write about within the context of these posts. Thus, [...]
Google Hits Reset Button on Google Health
Posted in consumer health, Dossia, Google, Google Health, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHR, PHS, tagged CardioTrainer, fitbit, ZipHealth on September 15, 2010 | 22 Comments »
Google Health has seemingly been stuck in neutral almost from the start. Despite the fanfare of Google’s Eric Schmidt speaking at the big industry confab, HIMSS a couple of years back, an initial beta release with healthcare partner Cleveland Clinic and a host of partners announced once the service was opened to the public in [...]
Is the mHealth Hype Justified?
Posted in consumer health, Google Health, HealthVault, PHR, telehealth, telemedicine, tagged Deloitte, mHealth, PWC on September 10, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Over the last few weeks there has been a lot of hype regarding mHealth. In late August Deloitte published an Issue Brief: The Mobile Personal Health Record (mPHR) that led to the conclusion that an mPHR will become the “killer app” healthcare app for the consumer. Then we have PWC who released their own report: [...]
Consumer Challenge: Creating a Longitudinal Record
Posted in consumer health, Google Health, HealthVault, HIT, mHealth, PHR on June 28, 2010 | 8 Comments »
A very good eZine on all things mobile health, is mobihealthnews. Brian and his partner Joe have done an excellent job of following many of the developing trends in this sector and occasionally, will have a guest author a column. On Friday, one of the co-founders of the iPhone app, iTriage, Peter Hudson, wrote a [...]
Telus Goes with Different Model for HealthVault
Posted in consumer health, Google Health, HealthVault, PHR, tagged Amalga, Telus, Telus Health Space on June 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Unlike the free access that one has here in the US to sign-up for and use Microsoft’s HealthVault for managing personal health information (PHI), Telus will “licensed” Telus health space to providers, agencies, provinces, etc. who will then offer it to their constituents. Telus health space is the Canadian instance of HealthVault, which Telus licensed [...]
Google’s Irrelevancy Leading to Demise?
Posted in consumer health, Google, Google Health, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHR, tagged Dossia, PHI on May 28, 2010 | 41 Comments »
Since its initial launch to much fanfare, Google Health has struggled to be relevant. Since its formal launch in May 2008, Google Health has not dedicated the resources to build out this platform into a truly engaging ecosystem of applications to assist the consumer in managing their health or the health of a loved one. [...]
Survey Uncovers Strong Growth in PHR Usage
Posted in consumer health, Dossia, Google Health, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHR, policy, tagged CHCF, PHR adoption on April 13, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Today, the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) released a consumer survey report looking at perspectives on healthcare IT, privacy of personal health information (PHI) and use of internet tools, such as PHRs to manage their health or health of a loved one. Having reviewed the slide deck and survey/data report (have taken the liberty of [...]
