Last week, a discussion got started on Google + by Brian Ahier about whether or not ONC’s aggressive support of Direct is undercutting many a Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO). What got this whole conversation started was an article in the January issue of JAMIA titled: Shifts in the architecture of the Nationwide Health Information Network. While [...]
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Is Direct Undercutting the Viability of RHIOs?
Posted in ACO, Analytics, consumer health, HIE, policy, RHIO, tagged Medicity Project Direct on February 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Telecom’s Tepid Plays in HIE Market
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIE, HIT, RHIO, tagged AT&T, Healthcare Community Online, Verizon on July 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The telecom industry makes its money delivering bits and bytes. Therefore, it is not too surprising that the two major players here in the US, AT&T and Verizon are placing some bets in the healthcare sector. Primary among those bets are enabling telehealth (both have been perennial sponsors of the Partners Connected for Health Symposium), [...]
Making Sense of the NHIN
Posted in CCD, CCR, CDA, HIE, RHIO, tagged NHIN, NHIN Direct on April 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The National Health Information Network (NHIN), which was the previous ONC head’s (Kolodner) top priority, or at least seemed that way is a concept that has its advocates and detractors. To date, we have been more of a detractor as the original NHIN was a very heavy, top down approach by the federal government to [...]
Meaningful Use Rules Hit the Streets
Posted in EHR, EMR, eRx, HIE, HIT, policy, RHIO, standards, tagged ARRA, CCHIT, CMS, HITECH Act, meaningful use on December 31, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Late yesterday afternoon, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) who holds the big bucket of ARRA incentive funds for EHR adoption, released two major documents for public review and comment that will basically define healthcare IT for the next decade. The first document, at 136 pgs, titled: Health Information Technology: Initial Set of [...]
PHAT: Mash-Up on Healthcare IT
Posted in consumer health, EHR, EMR, HIE, HIT, PHR, policy, RHIO, tagged Harvard School of Public Health, keas, PHAT on November 19, 2009 | 8 Comments »
On Monday, I participated in the Harvard School of Public Health event, Public Health and Technology (PHAT) which brought together a diverse views of healthcare, reform and the role that IT will play. The morning session focused on the status quo so to speak addressing the challenges of HIT in the clinical setting and the [...]
