As many readers know, Chilmark Research has been a strong proponent of mHealth for several years. Despite this enthusiasm, we sometimes come away from a conference, such as this week’s mHealth Summit, with the feeling that the only ones making a living with mHealth are conference organizers. Maybe it was the format of this particular [...]
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mHealth: Seemingly Stuck in Neutral
Posted in Cloud Computing, consumer health, mHealth, telehealth, telemedicine, tagged mHealth Summit, mobisante, WellDoc on December 9, 2011 | 16 Comments »
Giving Thanks, Albeit Belatedly
Posted in Cloud Computing, EHR, HIE, mHealth, PACS, radiology, telehealth, telemedicine on November 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
While it would be much better to give thanks prior to our (the US’s) big Thanksgiving holiday, sometimes things just get in the way as has been the case this fall. In fact, many things have gotten in the way – all good things, very good things, but gotten in the way nonetheless leaving you [...]
Dr. Watson I Presume
Posted in ACO, Analytics, Cloud Computing, Health Cloud, HIT, telemedicine, tagged IBM, Watson, WellPoint on October 18, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Little over a month ago, IBM and WellPoint announced an agreement wherein WellPoint will deploy IBM’s latest and greatest super computer and artificial intelligence mega-mind Watson. Watson’s claim to fame was its ability to beat the human Jeopardy champions much like Big Blue beat reigning chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. Since that Jeopardy match, IBM [...]
Robust Processes Supported by Health IT Core to ACO Success
Posted in ACO, Analytics, CMS, consumer health, EHR, EMR, HIE, mHealth, PCMH, policy, standards, telehealth, telemedicine, tagged Accountable Care Organization, Medicare on April 4, 2011 | 4 Comments »
On March 31st, the HHS’s Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) dropped its neutron bomb (proposed Accountable Care Organization (ACO) rules, caution PDF) on the healthcare industry. Much like the neutron bomb, the proposed rules will leave buildings standing, but any healthcare organization (HCO) planning to become a successful ACO will need to decimate [...]
mHealth: Is it a Market?
Posted in consumer health, mHealth, policy, standards, telehealth, telemedicine, tagged mHealth Summit on November 10, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Been attending the mHealth Summit for the last 3 days and an over-arching theme has been: mHealth is unlikely to ever become a market in its own right. Backing up this claim have been the countless projects/products being presented at this event with very few having a model that is scalable across a broad population [...]
TeleHealth Still Waiting…
Posted in CMS, consumer health, mHealth, telehealth, telemedicine, tagged Connected Health Symposium, ZEO on October 25, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Last week’s Connected Health Symposium was once again an event about a sector just waiting to break-out of perpetual pilot stage. This was my 4th Connected for Health Symposium (it holds a special place in my heart as this was the very first HIT-related conference I ever attended) but in each and everyone, a dominant, [...]
Is the mHealth Hype Justified?
Posted in consumer health, Google Health, HealthVault, PHR, telehealth, telemedicine, tagged Deloitte, mHealth, PWC on September 10, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Over the last few weeks there has been a lot of hype regarding mHealth. In late August Deloitte published an Issue Brief: The Mobile Personal Health Record (mPHR) that led to the conclusion that an mPHR will become the “killer app” healthcare app for the consumer. Then we have PWC who released their own report: [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
