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 [...]
Archive for the ‘HealthVault’ Category
RIP Google Health
Posted in CCR, consumer health, EHR, EMR, Google, Google Health, Health Cloud, HealthVault, Microsoft, standards on June 24, 2011 | 55 Comments »
HealthVault Continues to Build, & Google Health Still Useful
Posted in consumer health, Google Health, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHR, PHS on June 3, 2011 | 6 Comments »
This week, Microsoft’s HealthVault added a number of new enhancements to its platform including support for mobile access (only Windows 7 today, but they plan to launch support for Android and Apple’s iOS within the next few weeks). Wonder how it will look on the iPad? HealthVault will now auto-reconcile CCR and CCD data feeds [...]
Musings on PHRs & Consumer Engagement
Posted in ACO, consumer health, Dossia, Google Health, HealthVault, PHP, PHR, tagged HITECH Act, meaningful use on May 16, 2011 | 27 Comments »
The recent post on Google Health going into the deep freeze has solicited a number of emails, including some from the press. In one of those emails a reporter had spoken to several industry thought leaders to garner their opinions which follow: Consumers will not sign on to most Personal Health Platforms (PHPs) or services [...]
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 [...]
Much Ado About Patient Portals
Posted in ACO, consumer health, EHR, EMR, Google Health, health portals, HealthVault, PHR, policy, tagged Group Health Cooperative, health affairs, Kaiser Permanente, meaningful use, patient engagement, Stage 2 on March 18, 2011 | 24 Comments »
From Chilmark Research’s perspective, patient portals are by and large Much Ado About Nothing. Sure, plenty of healthcare organizations (HCO) talk about patient access, engagement, and satisfaction and how they wish to empower their patients. They point to their glossy patient portal and say look at this wonderful tool we are providing for our patients. [...]
HIMSS’11: Setting Expectations
Posted in ACO, Analytics, EHR, eRx, HealthVault, HIE, HIT, mHealth, Microsoft, tagged athenahealth, Carefx, HIMSS'11 on February 25, 2011 | 25 Comments »
Over a 1,000 exhibitors, some 30,000+ attendees and I come away from HIMSS, again, thinking is this all there is? Where is the innovation that the Obama administration i.e., Sec. Sebellius and Dr. Blumenthal both touted in their less than inspiring keynotes on Wednesday morn? Maybe I had my blinders on, maybe I was looking [...]
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, [...]
