John mentioned in an earlier post, “Is the mHealth hype justified?” how the word ‘mHealth’ has acquired a broad, unwieldy set of definitions. The mHealth term is now practically useless (except as a buzzword). In my research to date, I have learned not to approach an interviewee by asking if they want to chat about [...]
Archive for the ‘P4P’ Category
Business Drivers for Mobility in the Enterprise
Posted in EHR, EMR, mHealth, P4P on September 18, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Assessment: Ingenix Makes HIE Move Acquiring Axolotl
Posted in Analytics, EHR, EMR, HIE, HIT, P4P, tagged acquisition, Axolotl, Elysium, Elysium Express, iNexx, Ingenix, Medicity, Microsoft, PaaS on August 23, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Last week, Ingenix announced that it would be acquiring Axolotl. Probably no one was happier than the folks at Gilat Satellite Networks who had invested $4.5M in Axolotl over ten years ago, had written off that investment during the dot-com bust in 2001 and now is looking at getting some $24M in cash plus another [...]
Top Ten Predictions for Healthcare IT in 2010
Posted in CMS, Dossia, EHR, EMR, Google Health, HealthVault, HIE, HIT, mHealth, Microsoft, P4P, PHP, PHR, policy, telehealth on January 14, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Plenty of top ten predictions on any number of topics, but it is rare to find one focusing on healthcare IT, Chilmark Research’s bailiwick. And while we may be just a little late in getting this out there onto the streets, it is mid-January after all, our quick search on the net did not turn [...]
Snap Shots from HIMSS
Posted in EMR, Google, P4P, PHR, tagged Epic, GE, Google, HIMSS, Philips, PHR, Siemens on February 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Here at the big, dare I say massive, healthcare IT (HIT) conference for the next couple of days. It is late, I’m exhausted, and the prose may not be the best, but wanted to give a few impressions/snap shots from this first time attendee. Did I say big? Indeed it is with some 900+ exhibitors [...]
Predictions 2008: Telehealth Jumps, RHIOs Fade, Legislation Stalls & PHRs Get the Press
Posted in consumer health, EMR, Google, HIT, Microsoft, P4P, PHR, RHIO, SaaS, standards, telehealth, tagged Dossia, GE, Google, HIE, Microsoft, NHIN, Philips, PHRs, RHIO, Siemens, telehealth on January 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A common practice in the analyst community is to take a look back at what has occurred and project forward as to what we might see in the coming year. I won’t spend anytime on what has occurred as you can always drift back to previous posts. Following are the Top Ten predictions for 2008. [...]
Medicare Lays Out P4P Plans
Posted in P4P, policy, telehealth, tagged Medicare, P4P, telehealth on November 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, Medicare released its 104 page proposal for moving to a partial pay for performance (P4P) model. The Wall Street Journal Health Blog has a direct link to the proposal in their posting. As the WSJ points out, what is unique here is that Medicare is proposing to withhold a certain percentage of reimbursement across [...]
Aetna Joins Cigna and Goes One Step Further
Posted in consumer health, P4P, policy, tagged Aetna, Cigna, healthcare, quality on November 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Aetna, under pressure from the New York Attorney General’s office, has agreed to change its physician quality ranking system. This follows a similar move by Cigna about two weeks ago. Both UnitedHealth and WellPoint BS/BC are the remaining hold-outs, but I expect them to follow suit in the near future. What is interesting about the [...]
And then There Were Three
Posted in HSA, P4P, PHR, policy, telehealth, VEBA, tagged Chrysler, Ford, GM, healthcare, UAW on November 5, 2007 | 3 Comments »
This weekend the NY Times reported that the Ford’s UAW members will be voting on a negotiated contract agreement that is similar to the recent ones signed with GM and Chrysler wherein Ford will hand over the responsibilities of managing retirees health benefits to the UAW. In a previous posting I talked about the implications [...]
P4P, Transparency and the NY Attorney General
Posted in P4P, policy, tagged healthcare, P4P, payers on October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier this summer, the New York Attorney General took on the major healthcare insurers, Aetna, Cigna, United Health and WellPoint’s Empire BC/BS by putting them on notice that the Attorney General’s office was investigating how these companies were rating healthcare providers. Apparently, while these insurers were out their promoting cost and quality transparency, the foundation [...]
AHRQ’s Conference – Interesting Yet Puzzling
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIE, HL 7, P4P, PHR, RHIO, tagged AHRQ, EHR, EMR, HL7, P4P, PHR, RHIO on September 27, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Down in Washington DC for the next couple of days attending the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) conference. This is their first major conference bringing together a multitude of researchers, all having received funding from AHRQ. Conference, which was free, was completely booked about a month prior to the event. Estimate about 500 [...]
