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 [...]
Archive for the ‘HIT’ Category
Additional Thoughts on Thomson Reuters
Posted in Acquisition, Analytics, HIE, HIT, tagged EMC, Reed Elsevier, Thomson Reuters, Trizetto on June 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Likely Suitors as Thomson Reuters Exits Healthcare
Posted in ACO, Acquisition, Analytics, Cloud Computing, EHR, HIE, HIT, Microsoft, SaaS on June 9, 2011 | 16 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 [...]
Windy City, Turbulent Times
Posted in ACO, consumer health, EHR, HIE, HIT, Microsoft, policy, RHIO on April 26, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Special Note: When this post first went up an image of a tornado was used as a metaphor for the very turbulent times that the healthcare sector is currently experiencing. Little did we know that this week would see the most devastating tornados the Southern US has seen in three decades with hundreds of lives [...]
Learning from Mistakes: The Minnesota Story
Posted in CMS, EHR, HIE, HIT, policy on March 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Chilmark rarely references other reports and articles as the foundation for a post on this site. Once in a great while we come across a story that is just too good to pass over. Reporter Michael Krigsman, who writes the IT Failures column for ZDnet has just published such a story. The story gives a [...]
A Tale of Two Medical Records
Posted in CCD, CCR, EHR, EMR, HIE, HIT, PHR, standards on March 4, 2011 | 11 Comments »
This is a tale of my nearly year-long attempt to integrate my family’s medical records from a small outpatient provider (MIT Medical) into my Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect EMR. From 2008-2010 my family was living Boston where I was getting my MBA at MIT Sloan. We had been long-time Kaiser members before we moved to Boston [...]
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 [...]
HIMSS or Bust
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIE, HIT, mHealth, RHIO, tagged healthcare, healthcare IT, HIMSS'11, HIT on February 7, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Two extremely short weeks from today will be the official start of that annual healthcare IT (HIT) confab called HIMSS. Tens of thousands will gather to hear the latest and greatest on how HIT will deliver unfathomable rewards to all who adopt. Of course there will also be those discussions that if you aren’t on [...]
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, [...]
Snippet from Forthcoming HIE Report
Posted in ACO, HIE, HIT, tagged analytics, reporting on January 7, 2011 | 7 Comments »
OK, I admit it, I have been negligent. Since that brief holiday greetings post a couple of weeks back, I have not written a single thing for this site. Even before that post, my writing, or at least frequency thereof, had fallen precipitously. It is not that there has been nothing to write about – far from [...]
