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 [...]
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Learnings from mHealth Summit
Posted in consumer health, mHealth, telehealth, telemedicine, tagged mHealth, mobile health on October 30, 2009 | 8 Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Telehealth in US has Long Way to Go
Posted in consumer health, telehealth, telemedicine, tagged Connected for Health, Philips Medical, telehealth on April 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Philips finally released its long awaited study on the adoption of telehealth technologies among the nation’s some 976 home healthcare agencies. Initial results of his study were released last fall at the Connected for Health conference and I have been patiently waiting ever since to see the final report. So to give you a preview [...]
The Painfully Slow Move to Online Services
Posted in consumer health, health portals, PHR, telemedicine, tagged Aetna, Cigna, Kaiser Permanente, Medem, Medicare, online, PHR on February 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This week, the LA Times has an interesting article on how major insurers Cigna and Aetna will be reimbursing physicians for providing online consultations. It is encouraging to see these major payers step-up and support such practices. Other payers will likely follow as this could become a key service differentiator that would be attractive not [...]
Impressive Results from NHS
Posted in PACS, radiology, telemedicine, tagged NHS, PACS, radiology on December 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, many will joke about the healthcare system in the UK, but when it comes to implementing healthcare IT, they have done some impressive work, the most recent being the completion of a nationwide roll-out of a Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS). The PACS was implemented across the UK to facilitate the storing and [...]
Philips Continues Buying Spree
Posted in consumer health, telehealth, telemedicine, Uncategorized, tagged acquisition, Boston Scientific, GE, Philips, Respironics, Siemens healthcare, telehealth on December 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Philips Electronics announced on Friday that it will acquire Respironics for $66/share or about $5.13 billion, a 24% premium. This is the third and largest healthcare-centric acquisition that Philips has made in December. The first was Emergin, a small company (~100 employees, estimated $18 million in 2007 sales) and provider of medical alarming systems [...]
Telemed Delivering for California Diabetics
Posted in consumer health, telemedicine, tagged diabetes, retinopathy, telehealth, telemedicine on December 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This week, the California Healthcare Foundation (CHCF) announced that they were expanding a a pilot diabetes monitoring program, nearly quadrupling the number of clinics from the initial 12 to 42. The purpose of the program was to perform retinal screening fro diabetic retinopathy, which often results in blindness. In the pilot, which took place in [...]
Merging Outsourced Services with Software
Posted in radiology, telemedicine, tagged Merge Healthcare, outsourcing, RIS/PACs, RSNA, telemedicine on November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Merge Healthcare, a company that was once a darling in the Business 2.0 community has fallen from its lofty perch and is now struggling to stay viable in the rapidly changing medical imaging market. Despite current financial woes, the company will demonstrate at next week’s big industry confab, RSNA, a new solution combining software, Merge [...]
Coming to a Cell Near You – TxtMed
Posted in PHR, Security, telehealth, telemedicine, tagged AT&T, cellphone, healthcare delivery, PHR, Sprint, telehealth, Verizon on November 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Today’s Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has a fairly long article, by their standards, (section D, pg 1) on the use of cellphone text messaging to deliver health related information. Unfortunately, the article tries to cover too much ground going from texting for sex education info for teens in California to reminders for an appointment at [...]
