The big health IT industry confab HIMSS kicks off one week from today. With some 28 briefings scheduled over 2.5 days, the Chilmark Research team will be extremely busy to say the least. It is with that in mind that Chilmark has prepared the top 5 do’s and don’ts that all vendors need to keep [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cloud computing’
Top 5 Do’s & Don’ts for Speaking with Analysts at HIMSS
Posted in EHR, HIE, HIT, mHealth, PHR, tagged analyst, cloud computing, HIMSS on February 22, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Cloud Computing, Security & Privacy Considerations
Posted in EMR, Health Cloud, HIE, tagged cloud computing, ENISA, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS on December 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
While conducting research for the long overdue and nearly completed report on Personal Health Clouds (Dossia, Google Health and HealthVault) came across a recently published report by the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) addressing cloud computing security. Though quite long (over 120 pages) the report provides a very comprehensive overview of cloud computing, [...]
PaaS Challenges for HIE Vendors
Posted in HIE, tagged cloud computing, PaaS on November 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday’s post took a look at the future for the Health Information Exchange (HIE) market putting forth the projection that successful HIEs will move towards a platform as a service (PaaS) cloud computing model. Market forces (meaningful use) and simple logic are driving this transition. Since putting up the post, Chilmark has received several emails [...]
IBM Looks to the Clouds, Industry-Specific Clouds
Posted in PHR, tagged cloud computing, Health Cloud, IBM, mHealth on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just stumbled across this article, during the course of research for upcoming Health Cloud report. IBM is sponsoring research at a number of universities around the globe all looking at specific Cloud Computing applications in specific industry sectors. What we found of particular interest in the article is the research in health cloud computing that [...]
Innovation Principles: What Might Healthcare Sector Learn from Others
Posted in consumer health, EHR, EMR, Google, Microsoft, policy, tagged Amazon, cloud computing, eClinicalWorks, EmTech, HHS, innovation, medcommons, MIT, mobile apps, Ning, Xobni on September 24, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I’m here today at my alma mater, MIT to attend Technology Review’s annual conference, EmTech (short for emerging technologies). And why am I attending an event that appears to have little relevance to healthcare? Well, there is one session this afternoon addressing EMRs and another tomorrow on personalized medicine, but those are periphery to my [...]
Is that a Dark Cloud on the Horizon?
Posted in Google, Microsoft, PHR, Privacy, tagged cloud computing, Dossia, personal health systems on June 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The latest issue of HIStalk mentioned a recent post by noted Harvard Professor Nick Carr (he wrote the controversial book, Does IT Matter). The post addresses the rapidly evolving trend towards “Cloud Computing” and raises a number of issues/implications that cloud computing may present. As all Personal Health System (PHS) platforms (Dossia, Google and HealthVault) [...]
Harvard Conference on Internet’s Future
Posted in Google, Microsoft, policy, Privacy, Security, tagged athenahealth, cloud computing, healthcare IT, Internet, SaaS on May 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I got religion. At least religion that part of the savior to today’s, and more importantly, tomorrow’s healthcare crisis lies on the Internet. With the abysmal adoption of IT to date within the healthcare sector, I am a strong believer that this industry will simply leap-frog the traditional, three-tiered IT architectural model and move directly [...]
