After the $36B+ has been spent on what is hoped is the digitization of the healthcare sector via adoption of EHRs, what will be the consumer role? That was the question put to four speakers yesterday as part of the eHealth Initiative webcast that Chilmark Research participated in yesterday. Other speakers included: Phil Marshall of [...]
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The Consumer Role Post Stimulus
Posted in consumer health, EHR, PHR, policy, tagged ARRA, eHI, HHS, HIT, Stimulus Act on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
IBM Making a Move on Exchanges?
Posted in Google Health, HealthVault, tagged eHI, HIE, IBM, RHIO on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today, IBM announced that it has signed-on eHealth Initiative (eHI) CEO, Janet Marchibroda as their new chief healthcare officer. A somewhat odd title as she is not a doctor, but that is really not the issue here. To date, IBM has been somewhat missing from action in all the HIT buzz with most of the [...]
Day One: eHI Conference
Posted in consumer health, policy, RHIO, tagged eHI, healthcare reform, HIE on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
8:15am After the formal introductions, Karen Davis, head of The Commonwealth Fund has taken the stage. She’s beginning with the slides we have all seen (that is those of us who attend these events), unsustainable growth in spending, not getting what we paid for, etc. Their “National Scoreboard” has found quality slipping 1n 2008 from [...]
