PHRs are much like the tides, news about them ebbs and flows. Right now, with the relatively recent demise of Google Health, Dossia’s attempts at rebirth, and the significant inquiries we are receiving regarding meaningful use requirements to host a PHR (patient portal). But in and amongst all this Chilmark has heard on more than [...]
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Brief Counter on Statement Regarding PHRs
Posted in EHR, Google Health, health portals, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHP, PHR, tagged MyChart, patient portals on August 2, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Dossia’s Rebuild – Is it Enough
Posted in consumer health, Dossia, Google Health, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHP, PHR, tagged Embody Health, Health Manager, Healthcare Blue Book, Intel, Mayo Clinic, Pitney Bowes, Wal-Mart on July 25, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Following closely on the ill-fated demise of Google Health, fellow Personal Health Platform (PHP) provider Dossia announced last week a major upgrade of their platform with the release of Dossia Health Manager. We received a deep product dive at the end of last week and spoke with Dossia’s new CEO, Mike Critelli this morning. Initial [...]
Stepping in Where Google Health Left Off
Posted in consumer health, Dossia, Google, Google Health, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHP, PHR, tagged Cerner, Epic, GE on July 5, 2011 | 11 Comments »
A little over a week ago Google stated that it was putting a stake through the heart of their personal health platform (PHP) Google Health. We at Chilmark had been expecting this for some time, it was just a manner of when it would become official. Thus, we were somewhat taken aback by all the [...]
RIP Google Health
Posted in CCR, consumer health, EHR, EMR, Google, Google Health, Health Cloud, HealthVault, Microsoft, standards on June 24, 2011 | 55 Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Trash Talk vs. Reality
Posted in HIE, Microsoft, tagged Aetna, Axolotl, IBM, Medicity on March 2, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Spreading FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) is one of the most common sales tactics used against a competitor. I’m never surprised to hear some FUD being thrown around at a major trade show like HIMSS, but this year it seemed to be particularly virulent among the many vendors I spoke to, which did surprise me. [...]
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 [...]
