While a rumor was leaked about a week ago that Medicity and Novo Innovations would merge, the rumor became official this morning. The merger of these two vendors in the nascent RHIO/HIE (Regional Health Information Organization/Health Information Exchange) market is brilliant move bringing together two companies with distinct, but complimentary solutions and clients. This is [...]
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Medicity and Novo Merge: Brilliant or Desparate Move?
Posted in Dossia, EMR, Google Health, Health Cloud, HealthVault, HIE, HL 7, PHR, RHIO, SaaS, tagged Medicity, merger, Novo Innovations on January 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
NEWS FLASH: Google Opens Kimono Offering Health Beta
Posted in consumer health, Google, PHR, PHS, SaaS, tagged Google, Microsoft, PHR, SaaS on January 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today, Google opened the doors to a Beta version of its consumer health site. Based on that landing page, quite clear that unlike Microsoft, Google will offer a full fledged Personal Health Record (PHR) for the consumer. In addition to the base PHR functionality they will be providing, Google Health Beta will also offer a [...]
The Problem with PHRs
Posted in consumer health, PHR, SaaS, tagged adoption, consumer, EMR, HIStalk, PHR, physician on January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In conducting research for the upcoming study on the personal health record (PHR) market, I have had the opportunity to view and demo many a PHR solution. There is an exceedingly wide range of solutions with an equally wide range of capabilities and services now available. Unfortunately, far too many PHR solutions are embarrassingly simplistic [...]
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. [...]
Indivo Health: Further Details on Dossia Agreement
Posted in CCR, EHR, PHP, PHR, Privacy, RHIO, SaaS, tagged CCR, Dossia, EHR, EMR, open source, PHR, Privacy, SaaS, Security on October 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Had the opportunity last week to get an update from Will Crawford and Ken Mandl of the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program (CHIP), a joint collaboration of Harvard Medical and MIT. The objective was to learn more about the recent agreement between CHIP and Dossia, whereby Dossia will adopt Indivo as the Personal Health Record (PHR) [...]
Digging Into Microsoft’s HealthVault: Part Two (a) – The Platform
Posted in EHR, EMR, PHR, Privacy, SaaS, Security, tagged EHR, EMR, IT, Microsoft, PHR, Privacy, SaaS, Security, telehealth on October 12, 2007 | 8 Comments »
I came into this review with very high hopes, hopes that Microsoft, with its vast resources and market clout, would make a major splash in the rapidly evolving consumer health IT (HIT) market. I was thinking BIG. Big grand schemes, a monster of a Personal Health Record (PHR) solution that would provide all a consumer [...]
Digging Into Microsoft’s HealthVault – Part One: Search
Posted in PHR, Privacy, SaaS, Security, tagged acquisition, EMR, HIT, Microsoft, PHR on October 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As I reported earlier, Microsoft has jumped into the consumer healthcare market with the October 4th launch of HealthVault (HV). Microsoft was kind enough to provide me with an in-depth briefing on what HV is and is not which I will combine with my own research to provide a review over the course of the [...]
athenahealth Makes a Splash
Posted in EHR, EMR, P4P, SaaS, tagged athenahealth, EHR, EMR, IPO, P4P, SaaS on September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On Sept 20th, athenahealth (ATHN) went public on the NASDAQ becoming the most successful IPO to date in 2007. Coming out at $18/share, the share price soared to over $38/share, a 115% gain. Since then, the price has settled down (probably some profit taking by early purchasers) and is now trading at ~$33/share. Still a [...]
