It is almost becoming the norm to say that it has been another tumultuous year in the healthcare IT market. Market consolidation, pushback on timelines, growing chorus from IT departments that enough is enough against the backdrop of the political circus in Washington and across the land as we prepare for the 2012 election year. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘GE’
Looking Back on 2011 – What A Strange Year It’s Been
Posted in ACO, Acquisition, Analytics, Cloud Computing, consumer health, EHR, EMR, Health Cloud, health portals, HealthVault, HIE, mHealth, Microsoft, PHR, policy, RHIO, SaaS, standards, telehealth, tagged Direct Project, GE, HIMSS'12, mHealth on December 23, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Microsoft Bows Out of the Clinical Market
Posted in ACO, consumer health, EHR, HealthVault, HIE, Microsoft, PHR, tagged Amalga, GE, Orion Health, Qualibria on December 8, 2011 | 20 Comments »
Today, GE and Microsoft announced a joint venture (JV) that will lead to the formation of a new company (NewCo) targeting the clinical healthcare market sector. The NewCo will be located near Microsoft HQ in Redmond, WA, start with roughly 700 employees and combine the remaining Microsoft clinical products, Amalga UIS and the former Sentillion products [...]
Stepping in Where Google Health Left Off
Posted in consumer health, Dossia, Google, Google Health, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHP, PHR, tagged Cerner, Epic, GE on July 5, 2011 | 11 Comments »
A little over a week ago Google stated that it was putting a stake through the heart of their personal health platform (PHP) Google Health. We at Chilmark had been expecting this for some time, it was just a manner of when it would become official. Thus, we were somewhat taken aback by all the [...]
GE and Intel Target Telemed, Put $250M on Table
Posted in consumer health, Google Health, Health Cloud, HealthVault, telehealth, telemedicine, tagged Continua, GE, Health Guide, Intel on April 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
GE and Intel today jointly announced a partnership to address the healthcare telemedicine market, which they peg at $3B today, and more than doubling to $7.7B by 2012. Companies agreed to pool $250M for R&D over the next five years. Also, GE will become the channel to take Intel’s Health Guide to market. This announcement [...]
No Longer Just Chips at Intel
Posted in consumer health, EHR, EMR, Microsoft, PHR, telehealth, tagged GE, Health Guide, ICW Lifesensor, Intel, medical device, Omron, Panasonic, Philips, RelayHealth on July 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Late last week, Intel announced that it had received FDA approval or its consumer/caregiver centric health device, the Intel Health Guide. The Health Guide is a single purpose platform to facilitate telehealth by collecting data from devices (heart rate, weight, glucose, etc.) and securely transmitting the data for remote monitoring by a clinician or other [...]
Snap Shots from HIMSS
Posted in EMR, Google, P4P, PHR, tagged Epic, GE, Google, HIMSS, Philips, PHR, Siemens on February 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Here at the big, dare I say massive, healthcare IT (HIT) conference for the next couple of days. It is late, I’m exhausted, and the prose may not be the best, but wanted to give a few impressions/snap shots from this first time attendee. Did I say big? Indeed it is with some 900+ exhibitors [...]
With Merger, Is WebMD Now in Play?
Posted in consumer health, Google, health portals, Microsoft, PHR, tagged Aetna, Cigna, GE, Google, Healtheon, Intuit, McKesson, Microsoft, Revolution, RevolutionHealth, Siemens, WebMD on February 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This morning, along with announcing very good 4th qtr growth at WebMD, a concurrent announcement was made that Healtheon and WebMD have agreed to merge, putting the value of the combined entity at about $2.3B. Due to the structure of the deal, WebMD will also end up with a hefty war chest estimated at $700M. [...]
Predictions 2008: Telehealth Jumps, RHIOs Fade, Legislation Stalls & PHRs Get the Press
Posted in consumer health, EMR, Google, HIT, Microsoft, P4P, PHR, RHIO, SaaS, standards, telehealth, tagged Dossia, GE, Google, HIE, Microsoft, NHIN, Philips, PHRs, RHIO, Siemens, telehealth on January 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A common practice in the analyst community is to take a look back at what has occurred and project forward as to what we might see in the coming year. I won’t spend anytime on what has occurred as you can always drift back to previous posts. Following are the Top Ten predictions for 2008. [...]
Philips Continues Buying Spree
Posted in consumer health, telehealth, telemedicine, Uncategorized, tagged acquisition, Boston Scientific, GE, Philips, Respironics, Siemens healthcare, telehealth on December 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Philips Electronics announced on Friday that it will acquire Respironics for $66/share or about $5.13 billion, a 24% premium. This is the third and largest healthcare-centric acquisition that Philips has made in December. The first was Emergin, a small company (~100 employees, estimated $18 million in 2007 sales) and provider of medical alarming systems [...]
Update on the GE-Boston Scientific Partnership
Posted in EMR, HL 7, telehealth, tagged Boston Scientific, EMR, GE, healthcare, HL7, telehealth on November 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Recently wrote a brief post on the GE-Boston Scientific partnership, but left a few questions unanswered awaiting a reply from one of the companies. Received an email today that helps clarify the partnership. First-off, it is an exclusive partnership between these two companies. No need to despair, however, as the exclusive clause is for a [...]
