Since its initial launch to much fanfare, Google Health has struggled to be relevant. Since its formal launch in May 2008, Google Health has not dedicated the resources to build out this platform into a truly engaging ecosystem of applications to assist the consumer in managing their health or the health of a loved one. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Dossia’
Google’s Irrelevancy Leading to Demise?
Posted in consumer health, Google, Google Health, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHR, tagged Dossia, PHI on May 28, 2010 | 41 Comments »
Round Two: A Dossia Update
Posted in Health Cloud, PHP, PHR, tagged Dossia, Indivo, Wal-Mart on October 26, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Last Friday had the chance to meet up with the folks at Dossia, the personal health platform (PHP) formed by a consortium of employers. Purpose of the meeting was to get a deep dive update on Dossia and learn more about what they have done in the last year or so since they went live [...]
Labs, PHRs, Platforms & Consumer Engagement: A Presentation
Posted in consumer health, Google Health, Health Cloud, HealthVault, HIE, PHR, RHIO, tagged Dossia, lab, pathology on March 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Gave the Keynote presentation this morning at the Lab InfoTech Summit here in Las Vegas. The organizer, Bruce Friedman, Professor Emeritus in Pathology at University of Michigan, asked me to update the audience on what is happening in the PHR market and more broadly, what are the implications, either implied or explicit are trends in [...]
Connecting to Health Coaches with Wii Fit
Posted in consumer health, telehealth, tagged Dossia, Google Health, health coach, HealthString, HealthVault, Nintendo, Wii, Wii Balance, Wii Fit on January 30, 2009 | 10 Comments »
The extremely popular Wii gaming system will begin connecting directly to health professionals in April. It appears that this will be first offered in Japan combining the existing Wii Fit and Wii Balance devices with bi-directional online communication capabilities. Moving beyond just providing the gaming devices and platform, Nintendo is partnering with NEC, Hitatci and [...]
The Google Health Strategy
Posted in consumer health, Dossia, Google, Google Health, Microsoft, Privacy, Security, tagged Dossia, Google Health, PaaS on November 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Chilmark Research is furiously working on its next report that will take an in-depth look at the three major platform plays, Dossia, Google Health and Microsoft’s HealthVault. Shaping up to be an excellent report (in our humble opinion) with a target release date of mid-December. One of the challenges in writing this report is taking [...]
Cleveland Clinic & HealthVault Unite
Posted in consumer health, Google, Microsoft, PHR, tagged biometric, chronic care, Cleveland Clinic, Connection Center, Dossia, EMR, HealthVault, MyChart, telehealth on November 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »
In an interesting twist, Cleveland Clinic and Microsoft’s HealthVault Grp announced a partnership this morning to address chronic disease management. The interesting twist is that Cleveland Clinic was the showcase beta customer for Google Health, which was announced by Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt earlier this year at HIMSS. Like their counterpart in Boston, Beth Israel [...]
Google, Microsoft, Dossia & WebMD: Panel Highlights
Posted in Google, Microsoft, PHR, tagged Continua Alliance, Dossia, interoperability, WebMD on October 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
One of the treats of this week’s Connected for Health Symposium was the opportunity to moderate a panel entitled: Personal Health Information Platforms and Records: What’s the Nitty-Gritty Situation on the Ground? Obviously, I could not provide notes on this session while concurrently moderating it, but did find the following article at Healthcare IT News [...]
Connected for Health: Day One
Posted in consumer health, Google, Microsoft, PHR, policy, telehealth, tagged Connected for Health, Dossia, funding, Senator Kerry, VCs, venture capital, WebMD on October 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Bouncing from the Health 2.0 event last week to Connected for Health Symposium here in Boston, organized by Partners Healthcare, I’ll be reporting on some of the key presentations. Will also be moderating the afternoon session on the major platform plays, Dossia, Google Health, HealthVault and WebMD who is not exactly a platform but certainly [...]
Finally, Dossia Goes Live
Posted in Google, Microsoft, PHR, tagged AHIP, Dossia, Intel, Omnimedix, portability, Wal-Mart on October 1, 2008 | 5 Comments »
In what seems like ages since the first announcement of the formation of Dossia, the third platform play for personal health information (the other two being Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault), Dossia has moved from a an extremely limited pilot of ~20 Wal-Mart employees (guinea pigs) to now become a part of Wal-Mart’s 2009 health [...]
Academics and PHRs: RWJ’s Project HealthDesign Rolls Out the Carpet
Posted in consumer health, PHR, policy, tagged Dossia, Indivo Health, Project HealthDesign, Robert Wood Johson Foundation, RWJ on September 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Last week, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJ) hosted a one day event in Washington DC. Purpose of the event was to showcase the nine PHR-type solutions that have been developed under the multi-year, $5M Project HealthDesign (PHD) umbrella. Seven projects were funded at academic institutions the other two, beltway bandit consulting firms. Though I [...]
