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. [...]
Archive for the ‘Health Cloud’ Category
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 »
Dr. Watson I Presume
Posted in ACO, Analytics, Cloud Computing, Health Cloud, HIT, telemedicine, tagged IBM, Watson, WellPoint on October 18, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Little over a month ago, IBM and WellPoint announced an agreement wherein WellPoint will deploy IBM’s latest and greatest super computer and artificial intelligence mega-mind Watson. Watson’s claim to fame was its ability to beat the human Jeopardy champions much like Big Blue beat reigning chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. Since that Jeopardy match, IBM [...]
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 [...]
RIP Google Health
Posted in CCR, consumer health, EHR, EMR, Google, Google Health, Health Cloud, HealthVault, Microsoft, standards on June 24, 2011 | 55 Comments »
Chilmark Research has not had a very good feeling about Google Health for well over a year now. Back in early May of this year we felt that Google had all but given up and had put Google Health in stasis. Today, Google made it official, Google Health has a little more than six months [...]
Microsoft HSG Bets Future on Amalga
Posted in ACO, Analytics, Health Cloud, HealthVault, Microsoft, RHIO, tagged Amalga on May 3, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Microsoft’s Health Solutions Group (HSG), which has straddled the fence with consumer-facing (HealthVault) and corporate-facing (Amalga), is increasingly moving to the corporate side of the fence. Not that surprising considering that the consumer market continues to struggle (Google Health is in virtual mothball state, consumer adoption of HealthVault is nothing to write home about) and [...]
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, [...]
Where’s the Beef?
Posted in EHR, EMR, Health Cloud, HIE, Microsoft, tagged iNexx, Medicity, PaaS on May 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Awhile back, Chilmark received a briefing from Medicity about their forthcoming iNexx platform. We liked what we saw. iNexx fit our model of where the HIE and more broadly, the HIT market is headed, particularly for the far-flung small ambulatory practices that make up the vast percentage of where most people receive their care. It [...]
Cloud Computing, Security & Privacy Considerations
Posted in EMR, Health Cloud, HIE, tagged cloud computing, ENISA, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS on December 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
While conducting research for the long overdue and nearly completed report on Personal Health Clouds (Dossia, Google Health and HealthVault) came across a recently published report by the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) addressing cloud computing security. Though quite long (over 120 pages) the report provides a very comprehensive overview of cloud computing, [...]
Covisint Jumps onto PaaS Bandwagon
Posted in EMR, Health Cloud, HIE, Privacy, RHIO, Security, tagged AMA, Axolotl, Covisint on November 15, 2009 | 6 Comments »
A couple of weeks ago Chilmark Research did a small piece on the need for HIE vendors to move beyond silo’d standalone exchanges to a Platform as a Service (PaaS) model. In the write-up, the HIE vendor Axolotl was mentioned for their recent announcement of a third party image viewing app that was now available [...]
