Chilmark Research tends to shy away from the thorny, nearly intractable issues of privacy and security of Personal Health Information (PHI) (we’ll leave that to the lawyers and policy wonks to figure out). However one thing is very clear: As we continue to conduct more and more of our daily activities, both business and personal, [...]
Archive for the ‘mHealth’ Category
Who’s Data is it Anyway?
Posted in consumer health, mHealth, PHR, policy, Privacy, Security, tagged personal health information, PHI on February 13, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Welcomed Changes for 2012
Posted in Cloud Computing, consumer health, EHR, Google, Google Health, HealthVault, HIE, mHealth, Microsoft, PHR, Privacy, telehealth on January 31, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Since its start in 2007, Chilmark Research has kept a fairly low profile as analyst firms go, focusing on a few discrete domains of healthcare IT (HIT). First there was patient and consumer engagement that led to the publication of our first report on Personal Health Records (PHRs). That first research effort led to a [...]
Predictions 2012: Not What You Think
Posted in ACO, Analytics, CCD, CDA, Cloud Computing, consumer health, EHR, EMR, HIE, mHealth, Security, standards on January 11, 2012 | 8 Comments »
Admittedly, our predictions for 2011 were modest. Most of those predictions were logical and did not take a whole lot of imagination to envision thus our success rate, 7 “hits”, 2 “toss-ups” and 2 “misses was quite high. And though are biggest accomplishment, predicting Blumenthal’s departure just a few short weeks before he actually announced [...]
Looking Back on 2011 – What A Strange Year It’s Been
Posted in ACO, Acquisition, Analytics, Cloud Computing, consumer health, EHR, EMR, Health Cloud, health portals, HealthVault, HIE, mHealth, Microsoft, PHR, policy, RHIO, SaaS, standards, telehealth, tagged Direct Project, GE, HIMSS'12, mHealth on December 23, 2011 | 4 Comments »
It is almost becoming the norm to say that it has been another tumultuous year in the healthcare IT market. Market consolidation, pushback on timelines, growing chorus from IT departments that enough is enough against the backdrop of the political circus in Washington and across the land as we prepare for the 2012 election year. [...]
mHealth: Seemingly Stuck in Neutral
Posted in Cloud Computing, consumer health, mHealth, telehealth, telemedicine, tagged mHealth Summit, mobisante, WellDoc on December 9, 2011 | 16 Comments »
As many readers know, Chilmark Research has been a strong proponent of mHealth for several years. Despite this enthusiasm, we sometimes come away from a conference, such as this week’s mHealth Summit, with the feeling that the only ones making a living with mHealth are conference organizers. Maybe it was the format of this particular [...]
Giving Thanks, Albeit Belatedly
Posted in Cloud Computing, EHR, HIE, mHealth, PACS, radiology, telehealth, telemedicine on November 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
While it would be much better to give thanks prior to our (the US’s) big Thanksgiving holiday, sometimes things just get in the way as has been the case this fall. In fact, many things have gotten in the way – all good things, very good things, but gotten in the way nonetheless leaving you [...]
Trickle Down Health or Health 2.0 Impressions
Posted in Cloud Computing, consumer health, Dossia, EHR, Health Cloud, mHealth, policy, SaaS, tagged Health 2.0, PaaS on September 30, 2011 | 19 Comments »
Another year, another Health 2.0 under the belt. This being the fourth time attending it is interesting to see how this event and its participants have evolved. Like many things in life, some things at Health 2.0 have changed, some have not, most for the better, but there remain some troubling aspects to this event [...]
Who Will be the Salesforce.com of Healthcare IT?
Posted in Acquisition, Analytics, Cloud Computing, CMS, EHR, EMR, mHealth, Microsoft, tagged Axolotl, Covisint, CRM, Dreamforce 2011, Kryptiq, Medicity, Oracle, Salesforce.com, Siebel, SureScripts on September 7, 2011 | 24 Comments »
Last week was the massive Salesforce.com user conference Dreamforce (massive in that there were more attendees at Dreamforce then this year’s HIMSS!). We’ve been reviewing more than a few articles and writings written by those who attended the event. In the few short years of its existence (~13yrs) Salesforce.com has become one of the leading [...]
Trends in Patient Engagement
Posted in ACO, consumer health, Dossia, EHR, health portals, HealthVault, HIE, mHealth, Microsoft, PHP, tagged Centricity, Epic, Intuit Health, MEDSEEK, My Chart, patient engagement, patient portals, WellDoc on August 25, 2011 | 5 Comments »
As part of the process of setting our broader research agenda at Chilmark Research, we do a significant amount of secondary research combined with more limited, but highly focused primary research. We use this research to identify the “white spaces” where there appears to be a demand for some thoughtful, in-depth research and reporting that [...]
Re-entry into Healthcare
Posted in consumer health, EHR, mHealth, PHR, tagged Cerner, FDA, meaningful use, mHealth, ONC, Stage 2, WebMD on July 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
As with the last shuttle mission making its re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere yesterday, I am re-entering the world of healthcare IT after an extended family vacation in the wilds of Alaska. No, I did not see John Halamka up there, it is after all a VERY BIG state, but I did get the chance [...]
