WebMD announced first quarter earnings today that showed continued lackluster results for their “Private Portal” division, slipping roughly 5% year over year from $23M to $21.8M. Now one could argue that the overall decline in employment due to the recession is to blame for the drop in clients from 134 to 131 in Q1-2010, but [...]
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WebMD’s Private Portal Business Continues Slide
Posted in PHR, tagged consumer health, PHR, WebMD on May 4, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Health 2.0 Day One
Posted in PHR, tagged consumer health, Google Health, Health 2.0, Microsoft, Yahoo on October 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
8:15am, Intro done, Matthew, founder with Indu of the Health 2.0 conference announce all the countries and cross-section of companies represented. Quite amazing just how many people are here, nearly 900, considering the first Health 2.0 event was just over a year ago. Some very very general comments from Matthew on what Health 2.0 is. [...]
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 [...]
Angie’s List Jumps In, Doctors Moan – Again
Posted in consumer health, tagged angie's list, consumer health on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This week, Angie’s List, an online rating service by and for consumers, announced it will now allow consumers to rate doctors. Similar in some respects to the WellPoint/Zagat rating service in that it rates such things as cleanliness, bedside manners, etc. the service will cover 55 practice types from dentists, to docs, to insurers hospitals [...]
Privacy Rights Smack-down in NH
Posted in consumer health, PHR, policy, Privacy, tagged consumer health, EMR, PHR, policy, Privacy on March 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This week, the “Live Free or Die” state of New Hampshire’s House voted down House Bill 1587, a bill that would have strengthened the privacy rights of consumers. The biggest objections to this bill came from the medical establishment itself claiming that passage of the bill would stall adoption of healthcare IT (HIT) systems. In [...]
Deloitte Releases Healthcare Consumer Report
Posted in consumer health, tagged consumer health, Deloitte, trends on February 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This week, consulting firm Deloitte release their report: 2008 Survey of Health Care Consumers. While I only learned of this report earlier today, via Jane’s website, Health Populi, and have made only a cursory review, it appears to be a well done. Lots of metrics and charts in the report that many a small consumer [...]
PHRs on NPR this Morning
Posted in consumer health, Google, Microsoft, PHP, PHR, policy, Privacy, tagged consumer health, Google, HealthVault, Microsoft, NPR, PHR, Privacy on November 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This morning’s newscast of Morning Edition on National Public Radio (NPR) had a brief story (~ 4min, you can listen to it here) on the growing use of IT in a medical practice. The story quickly focuses in on the potential of Personal Health Records (PHRs) with interview comments from a doctor on how useful [...]
