Another Health 2.0 Conference has come to pass and with broken wrist limiting typing fluidity, going to keep this synopsis short and sweet. Not sure who said first impressions are lasting impressions, but coming up on the facilities that were to house this year’s Health 2.0 conference, I had a moment of trepidation upon seeing [...]
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Health 2.0: Up, Down and Sideways
Posted in Google, Google Health, HealthVault, tagged alliviant, American Well, Health 2.0, Health2.0, keas, MedHelp, Polka, Quicken Health, Within3 on October 9, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Swine Flu (H1N1): It’s Popping up Everywhere
Posted in consumer health, Google, HealthVault, Microsoft, tagged flu, H1N1, swine flu on October 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Over the past month or so on travel to a number of events, was a bit shocked to see all the attention being paid to the upcoming flu season and in particular, the H1N1 virus, commonly referred to as the Swine Flu. It first caught my attention at MIT’s emTech’09 conference where everywhere you turned [...]
Is Google Health Irrelevant?
Posted in consumer health, Google, Google Health, Health Cloud, HealthVault, PHR on August 6, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Scott Shreve, formerly of Medsphere, wrote a good post imploring Google to get back into the Personal Health Cloud game, a game where Microsoft HealthVault now appears to be the only game in town. Everything Scott says in his post Chilmark Research agrees with and we would even go so far as to say that [...]
Bad Data Saga Continues
Posted in consumer health, Dossia, EHR, Google, Google Health, Health Cloud, HealthVault, PHR on April 15, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Since our post on Monday, where we highlighted the potential impact to PHR adoption of the Boston Globe story on one consumer’s less than ideal experience with Google Health, there has been a number of other conversations worthy of note: From John Halamka, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the source of the “bad [...]
Google Picks Their Clinic’s EMR, Focus on Portability
Posted in EHR, EMR, Google, Google Health, Health Cloud, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHR, tagged MIE, nomoreclipboard on March 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Google recently announced that they had chosen EMR software, WebChart, from the Indiana company Medical Informatics Engineering (MIE) to power its three campus clinics, two in Mountain View and the other in Kirkland, WA. MIE is one of the seemingly countless small EMR providers that proliferate the HIT market with their EMR solution installed in [...]
Blumenthal’s Views = Lock-down on HIT Innovation?
Posted in Google, Microsoft, PHS, policy, standards, tagged CCHIT, certification, EHR, HIPAA, HITECH Act, ONC, Stimulus Bill on March 27, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Prof. David Blumenthal, the new head of ONC, makes some disturbing comments regarding the Stimulus Bill, HIT and HITECH Act in his article in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). The article is not completely off-base as he does a very good job of describing the basics of the HITECH Act, its intentions and [...]
Another Tiny Step Forward by Google Health
Posted in CCD, CCR, consumer health, Google, Google Health, Health Cloud, HealthVault, Microsoft on March 4, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Ever hoping for a viable competitor to HealthVault, we keep waiting for Google Health to kick it up a notch. But alas for us and the broader market, it continues to look like HealthVault is putting distance between itself and the other two consumer “Health Clouds” Dossia and Google Health. Earlier today, Google brief us [...]
BlackBerry Application Storefront Coming
Posted in Google, tagged Android, Apple, Blackberry, iPhone, mHealth on January 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Following on the hugely successful iPhone AppStore and the more recent Google Android Market, Research In Motion (RIM) intends to launch its own Application Storefront for the BlackBerry in March. ZDnet interviewed the folks at RIM on their plans, which was published today, following RIM’s announcement Monday of accepting submissions from 3rd party developers. Late [...]
Data Liquidity Needs to be the Focus says Booz Allen Hamilton
Posted in consumer health, Dossia, EHR, EMR, Google, Google Health, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHP on January 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, Booz Allen Hamilton and the American Hospital Federation published a report that argues for an emphasis on data liquidity. Report even goes so far as stating that an over-emphasis on EMR adoption (plenty of bills on Capitol Hill being introduced to promote such) may be misguided. Quoting the summary, the report encourages policy makers [...]
2008, What was Hot, What was Not
Posted in consumer health, Dossia, EMR, Google, Google Health, HL 7, Microsoft, PHR, PHS, tagged Cerner, eClinicalWorks, Oracle, Wal-Mart, Walgreens, WellPoint, Zagat, Zagats on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the nice things about all the writing done over the past year is that one can go back, apply some analytics and see exactly what topics/posts were popular over the past year. So, drumroll please… Following are the Top Ten Posts at Chilmark Research for 2008 with brief commentary: 10) Zagat Physician Rating [...]
