(Note: This is the second of a two-part post.) Keeping it Local This is most representative of the status quo and the most realistic path forward for the vast majority of payers who typically operate at the local level. In this scenario, one or more health plans in a regional market partner with other community [...]
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Forecast and Ramifications of Payers in the HIE Market: Part Two
Posted in ACO, consumer health, EHR, health portals, HIE, HIT, policy, Privacy, tagged BCBS, Lumeris, NaviNet, payers on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Siemens Jumps into HIE Waters
Posted in Acquisition, Analytics, HIE, HIT, Microsoft, tagged 4medica, AllScripts, Axolotl, Care Evolution, Certified Data systems, dbMotion, HealthUnity, IBM, ICA, ICW, InterSystems, Kryptiq, Medicity, MobileMD, Oracle, Orion Health, Siemens, Wellogic on November 4, 2011 | 19 Comments »
Acquisition fever has set in and they’re dropping like flies, independent HIE vendors that is. Earlier today, Siemens announced its intent to acquire enterprise HIE vendor MobileMD. So in little over a year we have seen IBM snag Initiate, Axolotl fall into the hands of Ingenix/United Health Group (Ingenix is now known as OptumInsight), Medicity [...]
Orion Strengthens Portfolio & MSFT Gains HIE Partner
Posted in ACO, Acquisition, EHR, HIE, HIT, Microsoft, tagged AllScripts, Amalga HIS, Amalga UIS, Axolotl Care Evolution, dbMotion, Orion Health, Thomson Reuters on October 19, 2011 | 21 Comments »
On Monday, New Zealand based Orion Health announced that it would acquire the mothballed Health Information Services (HIS) assets of Microsoft, Amalga HIS. In the same announcement, Orion and Microsoft also announced a partnership for Microsoft’s healthcare analytics solution Amalga UIS. Microsoft, during its HIT buying binge days a few years back had picked up [...]
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 [...]
EHRs Deliver the Goods, or at Least the Quality
Posted in ACO, EHR, EMR, HIT, policy, tagged ACO, diabetes, NEJM, P4P, PCMH, quality on September 1, 2011 | 8 Comments »
There have been a number of research studies published that question the value of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), particularly as it pertains to improving quality of care and ultimately outcomes. Chilmark has always viewed these reports with a certain amount of skepticism. Simple logic leads us to conclude that a properly installed (including attention to [...]
HIE Market Snippets
Posted in ACO, Acquisition, HIE, HIT, HL 7, PCMH, PHR, policy, RHIO, SaaS, standards on August 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In January, we released our HIE Market Report: Analysis & Trends which was extremely well-received. Sales have exceeded our rather optimistic projections – great for us. But what we are most proud of and honestly what keeps us going is that others are also gaining value from this report, especially those looking to purchase an [...]
How Not to Create an HIE
Posted in Cloud Computing, HealthVault, HIE, HIT, policy, tagged Carespark, consumer engagement, NH-HIO on August 10, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Sometimes, the job of an analyst can be so frustrating. A core part of the Chilmark Research charter is to educate healthcare stakeholders on critical trends in the marketplace that will lead to better, more successful adoption of IT and subsequently improve the health of the nation (if not the world). There are a couple [...]
Looking at Healthcare Through Payer Lenses: Part One
Posted in ACO, CMS, consumer health, HIT, policy, tagged Affordable Care Act, AHIP, health insurance exchange, HIX, payers on June 19, 2011 | 18 Comments »
Attending the annual health insurers confab (AHIP Institute) last week gave one some insight as to the challenges this part of the healthcare industry is facing. There were plenty of sessions on addressing data analytics for everything from population health management to fraud, a number of other sessions on consumer engagement, disease management, health & [...]
Additional Thoughts on Thomson Reuters
Posted in Acquisition, Analytics, HIE, HIT, tagged EMC, Reed Elsevier, Thomson Reuters, Trizetto on June 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Last week we posted an analysis of the pending sale of Thomson Reuters’s Healthcare unit. Since publishing that analysis Chilmark has received feedback, privately, from several, extremely knowledgeable people as to their thoughts on this sale and others who companies who may be equally interested in acquiring the healthcare business from Thomson Reuters. Below is a quick [...]
Likely Suitors as Thomson Reuters Exits Healthcare
Posted in ACO, Acquisition, Analytics, Cloud Computing, EHR, HIE, HIT, Microsoft, SaaS on June 9, 2011 | 15 Comments »
Earlier this week, Thomson Reuters (TR) announced that it intends to sell off its healthcare unit. A logical first response is: What they heck, why would they sell right now when the healthcare market is so hot and shows no signs of letting up? Thomson Reuters is a well-respected brand in healthcare and as healthcare organizations [...]
