Last week, the White House finally announced the 15 Beacon Award recipients who will split the $220M (roughly $15M each) to effectively leverage HIT to improve healthcare delivery in their communities. While many a community waited patiently for this announcement that was originally scheduled for sometime in March, it appears that the feds, and in [...]
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Shedding a Light on HIT – Beacon Awards
Posted in consumer health, EHR, HIE, HIT, mHealth, PHR, policy, telehealth, telemedicine, tagged ARRA, Beacon Community, HITECH Act on May 10, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Managed Care, HIT & ARRA
Posted in CMS, consumer health, Dossia, EHR, EMR, Google Health, HealthVault, HIE, HIT, Microsoft, PHR, telehealth, tagged ARRA, healthcare IT, healthcare reform on March 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, had the privilege to attend and present to a packed audience in New York City for CRG’s conference: IT & the Future of Managed Care: The Next Wave. Unlike most conferences I attend that are predominately focused on either the provider consumer sector of the healthcare market (tomorrow its the local New England HIMSS [...]
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 [...]
Top 10 Things to Consider When Choosing a PHR
Posted in CCD, CCR, consumer health, EHR, EMR, PHP, PHR, Privacy, Security, standards, telehealth, tagged biometrics on December 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
At some point, hopefully in the not so distant future, physicians, clinics and hospitals will reach for the ARRA/HITECH Act carrot, adopt a certified EHR and demonstrate meaningful use. One proposed requirement for meaningful use that will likely pass through the CMS rule making process is the requirement allowing citizens to receive their personal health [...]
Learnings from mHealth Summit
Posted in consumer health, mHealth, telehealth, telemedicine, tagged mHealth, mobile health on October 30, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Over the last two days, been attending the Foundation for the NIH’s event, the mHealth Summit. This being its inaugural year, the event has been covering a wide gambit of issues, but the majority of panel sessions, keynotes and what not have focused on the use of mHealth tech for addressing public health needs in [...]
Providers Taking Closer Look at PHRs
Posted in consumer health, EMR, PHR, telehealth on May 12, 2009 | 8 Comments »
The provider market has always been a key market for PHR vendors, but most PHR adoption and deployment efforts are led by a provider’s marketing department to improve customer service and increase retention. That is beginning to change. In Chilmark’s periodic calls with numerous PHR vendors we are beginning to see an uptick of interest [...]
GE Commits Billions to Healthymagination
Posted in consumer health, EHR, EMR, HIT, telehealth, tagged GE. Healthymagination on May 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Much like its ecomagination marketing program that tapped into all things “Green” GE today hosted a special press event to announce its latest marketing schtick, Healthymagination wherein GE plans to invest some $6B into the healthcare space over the next 6 years. Based on what was said in today’s conference and reviewing the various press [...]
HealthVault Moves Over the Border
Posted in consumer health, Health Cloud, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHR, telehealth, tagged Telus, Telus Health Space on May 6, 2009 | 15 Comments »
This morning, Canada’s second largest telecom provider, TELUS, announced that they have signed an agreement with Microsoft to licnse the HealthVault platform. Yesterday, Chilmark Research was pre-briefed on the announcement, here’s the scoop and analysis. TELUS and Microsoft have signed a multi-year agreement whereby Telus will license and host the HealthVault platform on their servers [...]
GE and Intel Target Telemed, Put $250M on Table
Posted in consumer health, Google Health, Health Cloud, HealthVault, telehealth, telemedicine, tagged Continua, GE, Health Guide, Intel on April 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
GE and Intel today jointly announced a partnership to address the healthcare telemedicine market, which they peg at $3B today, and more than doubling to $7.7B by 2012. Companies agreed to pool $250M for R&D over the next five years. Also, GE will become the channel to take Intel’s Health Guide to market. This announcement [...]
Experiences at Cleveland Clinic with HealthVault
Posted in HealthVault, Microsoft, telehealth, tagged biometric, Cleveland Clinic on March 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The local Cleveland paper published a good article today that highlights the work between Cleveland Clinic and Microsoft HealthVault. Back in November, these two announced a joint agreement to work together to test the efficacy of using consumers’ self-reported, biometric readings for improving care delivery. In this case, Cleveland Clinic customers who are managing a [...]
