Today, Microsoft announced that it will be acquiring the healthcare IT security software firm Sentillion. This is Microsoft Health Solutions Group’s biggest acquisition to date and will add critical security features to their clinician centric solution Amalga UIS. Chilmark Research sees this as a very savvy acquisition that will further extend the capabilities and thus [...]
Archive for the ‘Security’ Category
Savvy Move, MSFT Acquires Sentillion
Posted in HIE, Microsoft, Security, tagged Amalga UIS, Microsoft, Sentillion on December 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Covisint Jumps onto PaaS Bandwagon
Posted in EMR, Health Cloud, HIE, Privacy, RHIO, Security, tagged AMA, Axolotl, Covisint on November 15, 2009 | 6 Comments »
A couple of weeks ago Chilmark Research did a small piece on the need for HIE vendors to move beyond silo’d standalone exchanges to a Platform as a Service (PaaS) model. In the write-up, the HIE vendor Axolotl was mentioned for their recent announcement of a third party image viewing app that was now available [...]
NHIN: The New Health Internet?
Posted in CMS, consumer health, EHR, Google Health, HealthVault, HIE, HIT, Microsoft, PHR, policy, Privacy, Security on October 1, 2009 | 14 Comments »
Chilmark has not been a big fan of the National Health Information Network (NHIN) concept. It was, and in large part still is, a top heavy federal government effort to create a nationwide infrastructure to facilitate the exchange of clinical information. A high, lofty and admirable goal, but one that is far too in front [...]
CCHIT has a Seat at Table – for Now
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIT, policy, Privacy, Security, standards, tagged CCHIT, HIMSS, HITECH Act, ONC. ARRA on August 14, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Today, the HIT Policy Committee met once again, this time to hammer out what the term “certified EHR” means within the context of future ARRA reimbursements to physicians and hospitals. Chilmark sat in on the discussions, here is our assessment of what transpired. (See yesterday’s post, below, as to why the Certification issue is critical.) [...]
HealthVault’s International Strategy
Posted in consumer health, Health Cloud, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHR, policy, Privacy, Security, standards, telemedicine, tagged Telus on June 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
One of the more intriguing sessions at the recent Microsoft Connected Health Conference was that hosted by Mark Johnston, International Business Development Lead for Microsoft Health Solutions Group (HSG). During this session and follow-on conversations, Chilmark Research received a pretty clear picture of the HealthVault International strategy. Following is an overview of what we learned [...]
Information Fundamental to Knowledge
Posted in CCR, consumer health, PHR, policy, Privacy, Security, standards on June 23, 2009 | 6 Comments »
The foundational element to knowledge, from which wisdom flows, is information. Without information one can not begin to understand. So why is it that we, as consumers, have such a hard time gaining access to our personal health records, our personal health information (PHI)? Without access to that information, are we left to go forth [...]
Meaningful Use Draft is Tough to Swallow
Posted in consumer health, EHR, EMR, eRx, HIT, PHR, policy, Privacy, Security, tagged ARRA, CPOE, HITECH, meaning, meaningful use, ONC on June 16, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Today, the Meaningful Use (MU) workgroup of ONC’s HIT Policy Committee presented its recommendations for what physicians and hospitals will need to demonstrate to obtain ARRA funding for “certified EHRs.” Chilmark listened in on the presentation and deliberations of the meeting and also downloaded the slide deck, following is our initial assessment. The MU workgroup [...]
Health Records from Government Site Held for $10M Ransom
Posted in consumer health, Privacy, Security on May 5, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Late last week in the State of Virginia, someone hacked into the Virginia Dept. of Health Professionals (VDHP) website, downloaded all of 8M plus records and some 35M prescription records. Upon downloading the information, the hacker went on to erase all of the records on the VDHP servers and is now demanding a $10M ransom [...]
Usability Study Compares Google Health & HealthVault
Posted in Google Health, Health Cloud, HealthVault, PHP, PHR, Privacy, Security, tagged ease of use, Project Health Design, RWJF on February 2, 2009 | 7 Comments »
A boutique consulting firm, User Centric Inc., just released a brief report comparing the usability of the two leading Personal Health Platforms (PHP), or Health Clouds, Google Health (GHealth) and HealthVault (HV). While we may quibble with some of the inconsistencies in the report (e.g., state 30 participants but when breaking down by age group, [...]
Health Privacy is Dead
Posted in consumer health, policy, Privacy, Security on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The tech guru/gadfly, Robert Scoble, formerly of Microsoft blogger fame and now with FastCompany put up a post on the microblogging site, friendfeed with the title: Health Privacy is Dead, Here’s Why Now Scoble is very well-known in the tech/social media circles, so when he does a controversial post such as this it gets a [...]
