Spreading FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) is one of the most common sales tactics used against a competitor. I’m never surprised to hear some FUD being thrown around at a major trade show like HIMSS, but this year it seemed to be particularly virulent among the many vendors I spoke to, which did surprise me. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Aetna’
Trash Talk vs. Reality
Posted in HIE, Microsoft, tagged Aetna, Axolotl, IBM, Medicity on March 2, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Another HUGE Acquisition in HIE Market
Posted in HIE, HIT, tagged acquisition, Aetna, Axolotl, Ingenix, Medicity on December 7, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Just as we are trying to put the final touches to the forthcoming HIE Market Report, another major HIE vendor gets acquired and again it is a very big fish swallowing a small and very pricey little fish. Geez, they are making our life difficult here at Chilmark. This morning, Aetna announced that it will [...]
HealthVault Adds Another Arrow to its Quiver
Posted in PHR, PHP, Microsoft, consumer health, Dossia, Google Health, tagged HealthVault, Aetna, OptumHealth, United Health Group on December 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Seemingly on a roll, OptumHealth, the consumer facing health and wellness division of United Health Group (UHG), the nation’s largest health insurer, announced yesterday that it will support health record portability by allowing members to export their Optum PHR data to HealthVault. Basically, what this means is that any user of the Optum PHR (formerly [...]
Humana Breaks the Mold
Posted in consumer health, tagged Aetna, BCBS, Cigna, Freewheeling, Humana, Humana Innovations, payers, WellPoint on December 10, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Slowly getting the hang of Twitter and while cruising around the TwitterSphere yesterday looking for updates from the WHIT’08 conference in DC came across a guy providing live tweets from the event. Looking more closely at his profile, it turns out he works in a “skunk-like” innovations group at Humana, called Humana Innovations. Like a [...]
Avoiding the Tough Issues (Like Healthcare Reform)
Posted in consumer health, policy, tagged Aetna, CDHP, healthcare costs, HSA, SmartSource, transparency on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Typically, we do not cover political policy issues regarding healthcare (at least we don’t write about them anymore than we absolutely have to) as there are plenty of others to turn to for such analysis (hint: search on, “health wonk review”). That being said, did read a good article this morning by the folks at [...]
CIGNA Playing Catch-up Introduces New Site
Posted in consumer health, PHR, tagged Aetna, Cigna, Healthwise, WellPoint on October 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
CIGNA has appeared asleep at the wheel for sometime now as competitors Wellpoint and the more aggressive Aetna look to engage the end consumer. Not any more. Today’s Washington Post had a brief article on CIGNA’s introduction of the new website, itstimetofeelbetter. Along with the new website, which has a wide ranging and somewhat confusing [...]
Is Medical Tourism Set to Explode?
Posted in consumer health, EMR, Google, Microsoft, PHR, tagged Aetna, Fast Company, McKinsey, medical tourism on June 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The merry month of May brought two interesting articles on medical tourism, the first from the Tier One strategy consulting firm McKinsey entitled Mapping the Market for Medical Travel. The second, an excellent article in the May issue of Fast Company. Both reports were very well-researched and written providing unique perspectives on medical tourism. McKinsey [...]
Aetna’s CEO Again Attacks 3rd Party PHRs
Posted in consumer health, Google, Microsoft, PHR, Privacy, Security, tagged ActiveHealth, Aetna, Google Health, HealthVault, payers on May 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
You may recall that during an interview last October with the fine folks who manage the WSJ’s Health Blog that Aetna’s CEO, Ron Williams called Microsoft’s personal health platform, HealthVault and Google Health “vaporware”. Well, he’s at it again, this time taking another pot-shot at Google Health. Yesterday, while speaking at the MIT CIO Symposium [...]
WHCC & Reports from the Field
Posted in consumer health, PHR, policy, tagged Aetna, Cigna, consumer health, Dossia, Google Health, Microsoft, PHR, WellPoint, WHCC on April 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ll be attending the World Health Care Congress (WHCC) here in Washington DC getting my fill of all things healthcare and most likely an overdose on policy – after all, this is Washington. The people who put on the WHCC have put together quite an impressive agenda with so many different and what look to [...]
Web Visits Gets Air Time
Posted in consumer health, EMR, eRx, PHR, tagged Aetna, Cigna, e-Consultations, PHR, RelayHealth on April 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This morning, on National Public Radio’s (NPR) Morning Edition, there was a nice 5 minute segment on e-Consultations. With the two big insurers Aetna and Cigna now reimbursing physicians for conducting such e-Consultations, we will be seeing much more of this in the future. During the NPR spot they interviewed an internist who actively performs [...]
