The World Health Care Congress will have its 5th annual event this coming April 21-23 in Washington DC. Quite an impressive line-up of speakers (Toby Cosgrove will be there) with sessions targeting all healthcare stakeholders, from heath plans to employers to providers and everything in-between. It’s all there. Heavy on the policy side (after all [...]
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Good Event Coming Up
Posted in consumer health, EHR, EMR, health portals, Microsoft, PHR, policy, tagged consumer healthcare, EMR, Health 2.0, PHR on March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Google’s Schmidt Outlines Health Platform
Posted in consumer health, Dossia, Google, health portals, Microsoft, PHR, PHS, tagged Google, health, HealthVault, HIMSS, Microsoft, PHR on February 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Though Google announced the formal unveiling of their PHR last week, via the deal with Cleveland Clinic, today was the true coming out event when Google CEO Eric Schmidt formally introduced Google Health to the throngs at HIMSS during his keynote. Based on the demo I received at HIMSS, conversations I have had and comments [...]
With Merger, Is WebMD Now in Play?
Posted in consumer health, Google, health portals, Microsoft, PHR, tagged Aetna, Cigna, GE, Google, Healtheon, Intuit, McKesson, Microsoft, Revolution, RevolutionHealth, Siemens, WebMD on February 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This morning, along with announcing very good 4th qtr growth at WebMD, a concurrent announcement was made that Healtheon and WebMD have agreed to merge, putting the value of the combined entity at about $2.3B. Due to the structure of the deal, WebMD will also end up with a hefty war chest estimated at $700M. [...]
Taking Baby Steps, Google & Cleveland Clinic Partner on PHRs
Posted in Dossia, EMR, Google, health portals, Microsoft, PHR, PHS, RHIO, tagged Cleveland Clinic, Dossia, EMR, Epic, Google, HealthVault, Microsoft, NHIN, PHR, RHIO on February 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Late yesterday, the Cleveland Clinic announced that they have partnered with Google to do a pilot (beta) of the Google PHR. Cleveland Clinic intends to allow, by invitation, about 1-10% of its existing 100,000+ users of the Epic-based patient portal (a tethered PHR) called MyChart to participate in this trial. Stated purpose is to test [...]
HIMSS – PHR Platforms MIA
Posted in EMR, health portals, Microsoft, PHR, PHS, tagged AHIP, Cerner, Eclipsys, EMR, Epic, GE Healthcare, Google, HIMSS, Microsoft, PHR, Revolution Health, Siemens on February 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Received an email this weekend from the organizers of the big healthcare IT conference, HIMSS, which will be held next week in Orlando. This is the BIG EVENT, where virtually all present and future players in the HIT market come to pontificate on HIT’s future (e.g., both Google’s and Revolution Health’s CEOs will be giving [...]
Odd, Facts Don’t Support Revolution Health’s Claim
Posted in Google, health portals, PHR, tagged Alexa, Goolge, HealthVault, Microsoft, RevolutionHealth, WebMD on February 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Last week, Revolution Health made the claim that they had surpassed WebMD as the number one stop for consumers looking for health information. Ignoring Google’s massive presence for searching on medical information is one thing, but going so far as to say they have surpassed WebMD is certainly a stretch of the imagination. Did a [...]
The Painfully Slow Move to Online Services
Posted in consumer health, health portals, PHR, telemedicine, tagged Aetna, Cigna, Kaiser Permanente, Medem, Medicare, online, PHR on February 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This week, the LA Times has an interesting article on how major insurers Cigna and Aetna will be reimbursing physicians for providing online consultations. It is encouraging to see these major payers step-up and support such practices. Other payers will likely follow as this could become a key service differentiator that would be attractive not [...]
Markle Addresses Authentication for Health Records
Posted in consumer health, EMR, health portals, PHR, policy, Privacy, Security, tagged authentication, Connecting for Health, EMR, Markle, NHIN, PHR on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Late last week, the Markle Foundation’s Connecting for Health initiative released its latest report: Consumer Authentication for Networked Personal Health Information. As with previous reports from Connecting for Health, this report is heavy on policy and much of it can be quickly skimmed, after all, it is some 37 pages in length. But within those [...]
Continua Alliance Features PHRs
Posted in EHR, EMR, health portals, Microsoft, PHP, PHR, Privacy, telehealth, tagged Continua Alliance, EMR, Microsoft, PHP, PHR, telehealth on December 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »
While doing some research, came across this feature article in the telehealth/med device alliance, Continua’s monthly newsletter. The article, written by arguably one of the most prolific, hyperactive and knowledgeable CIO’s in the healthcare sector, John Halamka, who also happens to be a professor at Harvard Med, provides a good introductory overview of the personal [...]
Moving the Ball Forward: PCHRI 2007
Posted in EHR, EMR, Google, health portals, HIE, Microsoft, PHP, PHR, policy, Privacy, Security, tagged Aetna, Children's Hospital CHIP, Dossia, Google, Indivo, Microsoft, pharmaceutical, PHP, PHR, WebMD on November 29, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The Children’s Hospital Informatics Program (CHIP), developers of Indivo, hosted PCHRI 2007, an invitation only conference over the last two days. The event brought together about 100 leading players in the Personal Health Record (PHR) market to discuss where the market is today, what challenges lie ahead, and what we might see in the future. [...]
