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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘EMR’
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 »
What Might an Ideal EHR Look Like?
Posted in consumer health, EHR, EMR, PHR, tagged EHR, EMR, PHR on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Blog I frequently visit is that of John Halamka, the CIO at Boston based Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital. Halamka is also one of those people that has seemingly unlimited amounts of energy, is on all sorts of committees and arguably, one of the sharper minds out there with a deep understanding of healthcare IT. [...]
Philips Picks Up Niche CVIS Software Company
Posted in EMR, PACS, telehealth, tagged EMR, Philips Medical, TOMCAT Systems on March 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday, Phillips announced that it will acquire Irish-based healthcare software provider TOMCAT Systems, Ltd. for an undisclosed sum. TOMCAT, based in Belfast with about 25 employees, offers a well-regarded cardiovascular information system (CVIS) software package that should fit nicely in the existing Philips cardiovascular portfolio. What I find particularly intriguing though is that TOMCAT is [...]
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 [...]
Good Event Coming Up
Posted in consumer health, EHR, EMR, health portals, Microsoft, PHR, policy, tagged consumer healthcare, EMR, Health 2.0, PHR on March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The World Health Care Congress will have its 5th annual event this coming April 21-23 in Washington DC. Quite an impressive line-up of speakers (Toby Cosgrove will be there) with sessions targeting all healthcare stakeholders, from heath plans to employers to providers and everything in-between. It’s all there. Heavy on the policy side (after all [...]
Taking Baby Steps, Google & Cleveland Clinic Partner on PHRs
Posted in Dossia, EMR, Google, health portals, Microsoft, PHR, PHS, RHIO, tagged Cleveland Clinic, Dossia, EMR, Epic, Google, HealthVault, Microsoft, NHIN, PHR, RHIO on February 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Late yesterday, the Cleveland Clinic announced that they have partnered with Google to do a pilot (beta) of the Google PHR. Cleveland Clinic intends to allow, by invitation, about 1-10% of its existing 100,000+ users of the Epic-based patient portal (a tethered PHR) called MyChart to participate in this trial. Stated purpose is to test [...]
HIMSS – PHR Platforms MIA
Posted in EMR, health portals, Microsoft, PHR, PHS, tagged AHIP, Cerner, Eclipsys, EMR, Epic, GE Healthcare, Google, HIMSS, Microsoft, PHR, Revolution Health, Siemens on February 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Received an email this weekend from the organizers of the big healthcare IT conference, HIMSS, which will be held next week in Orlando. This is the BIG EVENT, where virtually all present and future players in the HIT market come to pontificate on HIT’s future (e.g., both Google’s and Revolution Health’s CEOs will be giving [...]
Amalga = Amalgamation
Posted in EHR, EMR, eRx, Microsoft, PACS, tagged Amalga, Azyxxi, EMR, HIT, Microsoft on February 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier this week, Microsoft announced the release of its new product suite for the healthcare sector, Amalga. Almaga includes the Azyxxi solution, which they acquired from Medstory, and the Global 2000, hospital information management (HIS) solution being used at the medical tourism destination, Bumrungrad International Hospital. A relatively minor announcement in the grand scheme of [...]
Civic Duty?
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIE, PHR, policy, RHIO, standards, tagged Alliance, EHR, EMR, HHS, HIE, HIMSS, HIT, PHR, RHIO, standards on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you get bored of walking the aisles of HIMSS and can’t bear to hear another vendor pitch, well you could always wander over to a session where people will gather to discuss and reach consensus on what are arguably the 5 most used acronyms in the industry. You can contribute to the discussion as [...]
Wal-Mart EMR Mandate Implications
Posted in consumer health, Dossia, EMR, Google, Microsoft, PHS, tagged Dossia, eClinicWorks, EMR, Google, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHR, PHS, retail clinic, Wal-Mart on February 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Wal-Mart, over the last few years has been aggressively moving into the healthcare market with one of its first big moves being the selling of some generics for $4/prescription. In an investor call last month, Wal-Mart went further hinting that it wishes to enter the pharmaceutical benefits management (PBM) market. A couple of good posts [...]
