Last Friday had the chance to meet up with the folks at Dossia, the personal health platform (PHP) formed by a consortium of employers. Purpose of the meeting was to get a deep dive update on Dossia and learn more about what they have done in the last year or so since they went live [...]
Archive for the ‘Health Cloud’ Category
Round Two: A Dossia Update
Posted in Health Cloud, PHP, PHR, tagged Dossia, Indivo, Wal-Mart on October 26, 2009 | 7 Comments »
AHRQ’09: Improving with Age
Posted in consumer health, Google Health, Health Cloud, HealthVault, PHP, PHR, tagged AHRQ, HHS, patient safety on September 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This year was Chilmark Research’s third AHRQ’09 event. The previous two we attend in 2007 and 2008 left us, how shall we say it… underwhelmed and really did not have much intention of attending this year. But that was before ARRA, before meaningful use, before certified EHRs, and certainly before we were asked if we [...]
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 [...]
Stuck in the Past: New HIE Model Required
Posted in Dossia, EHR, Google Health, Health Cloud, HealthVault, HIE, PHR, Privacy, tagged meaningful use on July 30, 2009 | 9 Comments »
On July 16th, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) held a lengthy meeting of the HIT Policy Committee where a wide range of topics were addressed by various workgroups. As we reported earlier, the Meaningful Use (MU) Workgroup presented the second draft of recommendations, that were approved. Over the course of [...]
HealthVault’s International Strategy
Posted in consumer health, Health Cloud, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHR, policy, Privacy, Security, standards, telemedicine, tagged Telus on June 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
One of the more intriguing sessions at the recent Microsoft Connected Health Conference was that hosted by Mark Johnston, International Business Development Lead for Microsoft Health Solutions Group (HSG). During this session and follow-on conversations, Chilmark Research received a pretty clear picture of the HealthVault International strategy. Following is an overview of what we learned [...]
Meaningful Use: A Driver for PHR Growth?
Posted in consumer health, Health Cloud, PHR, tagged ARRA, HHS, HITECH Act, meaningful use, PHR on May 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Information Exchange in support of care coordination is one of the three meaningful use criteria cited in the ARRA (Stimulus) legislation, with the other two being demonstrated use of eRx and ablity to provide quality reporting metrics. In many conversations and presentations though, it appears that the consensus view is that “Information Exchange” is that [...]
Tethered PHRs: Cutting the Umbilical Cord
Posted in consumer health, Google Health, Health Cloud, HealthVault, PHR on May 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Provider PHRs currently have the largest number of actual users, with Chilmark Research estimating that nearly 70% of all PHR use occurs on a provider-sponsored PHR. While this is certainly significant, one must remember that the PHR market is very immature, adoption is low and at about at the same level of EMR usage in [...]
HealthVault Moves Over the Border
Posted in consumer health, Health Cloud, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHR, telehealth, tagged Telus, Telus Health Space on May 6, 2009 | 15 Comments »
This morning, Canada’s second largest telecom provider, TELUS, announced that they have signed an agreement with Microsoft to licnse the HealthVault platform. Yesterday, Chilmark Research was pre-briefed on the announcement, here’s the scoop and analysis. TELUS and Microsoft have signed a multi-year agreement whereby Telus will license and host the HealthVault platform on their servers [...]
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 [...]
HIMSS’09: Meetings of Interest
Posted in Analytics, EHR, EMR, eRx, Google Health, Health Cloud, HealthVault, Microsoft, tagged HIMSS09, HITECH Act, Stimulus Bill on April 10, 2009 | 8 Comments »
HIMSS’09 had some highlights from various vendor briefings and conversations in the halls that are abstracted below. By no means is this inclusive of all discussions, but reflects what are the gems I walked away with from this event and is certainly in contrast to the previous HIMSS post. Overview: HIMSS was well attended, though [...]
