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. [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Likely Suitors as Thomson Reuters Exits Healthcare
Posted in ACO, Acquisition, Analytics, Cloud Computing, EHR, HIE, HIT, Microsoft, SaaS on June 9, 2011 | 15 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 [...]
HIMSS11 Shrinking the World Down One Size
Posted in ACO, EHR, EMR, mHealth, SaaS on March 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Like Dilbert, I left HIMSS11 with a sense of scale that was somewhat skewed. The first time I crossed the pedestrian bridge overlooking the vendor showroom, I was immediately struck by the vastness of it all. The showroom itself seemed to go on and on. Massive booths were equipped with overhead signs that spun [...]
HIE Report is Released
Posted in Analytics, EHR, Health Cloud, health portals, HIE, Microsoft, SaaS, tagged Axolotl, Carefx, Covisint, health information exchange, InterSystems, MEDecision, Medicity, MEDSEEK, MobileMD, Orion Health, RelayHealth on January 24, 2011 | 5 Comments »
The long awaited, dare I say anticipated HIE Market Report is now complete and ready for purchase. This report, arguably the most comprehensive report yet published on this rapidly evolving market (116pgs, 21 vendors profiled, 0ver 25 tables and figures) will provide the reader with a detailed portrait of today’s HIE Market, its leading vendors, [...]
Don’t Rule-out the Mobile Browser
Posted in EHR, EMR, Privacy, SaaS, Security, standards, tagged mHealth on October 7, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Henry J. Feldman, M.D., instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). Dr. Feldman also serves as Chief Information Architect in addition to practicing as a hospitalist at BIDMC. Dr. Feldman discussed BIDMC’s platform-agnostic mobile strategy, whereby clinicians access all [...]
Looking Back: 2009 Forecast Assessment
Posted in CCR, consumer health, Dossia, EHR, EMR, Google Health, HealthVault, HIE, HIT, mHealth, SaaS, telemedicine, tagged ARRA, forecast, HITECH Act on December 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A common practice among analyst firms such as Chilmark Research is to make annual predictions of what is in store for the coming year. Chilmark will be making its own predictions for 2010 in the next couple of weeks. Unfortunately, what most analyst firms do not do is reflect on their previous predictions and assess [...]
HIMSS 09 – Reports from the Field
Posted in EHR, EMR, eRx, Google Health, HealthVault, HIE, Microsoft, PHR, RHIO, SaaS, tagged HIMSS09, HIT on April 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Over the last week we have not been as diligent in providing posts on happenings in the HIT market (we try to do at least 4/wk) as we prepared for the big industry confab, HIMSS09. Are dance card for HIMSS is completely packed with briefings across a wide expanse of the market, from some of [...]
HIE, SaaS and Low-Cost, Nationwide Adoption of EHRs
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIE, RHIO, SaaS, tagged HITECH Act, Stimulus Bill on February 6, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The Stimulus packages (HITECH Act) that are winding their way through the Senate and House call for spending some $20B on healthcare IT initiatives, the lion’s share to provide incentives to physicians to adopt “certified EHRs”. In addition to the very real potential that this legislation will completely shut-down HIT innovation, another issue was brought [...]
