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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Google Health’
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 »
Live Tweets of Google Health Webcast
Posted in PHR, tagged Google Health, PHR on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sitting in on the webcast by Google today, most discussions is focusing on Google Health. Doing “live tweets” via twitter which you’ll find at john_chilmark
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 [...]
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. [...]
Interview with Adam Bosworth, formerly of Google Health
Posted in consumer health, Microsoft, Privacy, tagged Adam Bosworth, adoption, Google Health, HealthVault, personal health information, personal health systems, PHI, Xoova on August 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Adam Bosworth made quite a name for himself in the healthcare space while he was leader of the Google Health initiative. All got quite strange, however, when while on vacation late last summer, Bosworth decided not to return to Google Health. And while Bosworth went into stealth mode to develop Keas, Google chose not to [...]
Back Story on CMS PHR Go Live
Posted in consumer health, Google, PHR, Privacy, Security, tagged CMS, Google Health, Healthtrio on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In early May, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the “go live” of the Personal Health Record pilot for Medicare beneficiaries in South Carolina. Titled MyPHRSC, the PHR is based on technology from vendor Healthtrio (a company profiled in Chilmark’s just released PHR Market Report), with contractor QSSI doing the outreach to [...]
Aetna’s CEO Again Attacks 3rd Party PHRs
Posted in consumer health, Google, Microsoft, PHR, Privacy, Security, tagged ActiveHealth, Aetna, Google Health, HealthVault, payers on May 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
You may recall that during an interview last October with the fine folks who manage the WSJ’s Health Blog that Aetna’s CEO, Ron Williams called Microsoft’s personal health platform, HealthVault and Google Health “vaporware”. Well, he’s at it again, this time taking another pot-shot at Google Health. Yesterday, while speaking at the MIT CIO Symposium [...]
NEWS FLASH: iPHR Market Report Now Available
Posted in Google, Microsoft, PHR, tagged Dossia, Google Health, HealthVault, iPHR, PHR Market Report on May 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The long awaited PHR Market Report that we at Chilmark Research have been tirelessly working on is now available for purchase. Titled, iPHR Market Report, Analysis & Trends in Internet-based Personal Health Records, this 100+ page report provides a comprehensive and timely report on where this market is today and where it is headed. A [...]
Google Health Goes Live – Quick Analysis
Posted in consumer health, Google, Microsoft, PHR, Privacy, Security, tagged Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic, CVS/Caremark, eRx, Google Health, HealthVault, Medco, Medem, Minute Clinic, Ouest Dignostics, SafeMed, Walgreens on May 19, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Late this afternoon, Google Health Beta officially opened its doors for anyone to sign-up. While I did predict they would go live in the 2nd quarter, I was thinking end of the quarter, not the mid-point. Hat’s off to Google for moving so quickly. As you know, I am at the TEPR conference trying to [...]
And Another Online PHR Survey – Results
Posted in PHR, tagged Google Health, HIMSS, Microsoft on May 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Earlier today had a post on the HDM online quick survey showing early results that PHRs are definitely coming – at least that is what those in the healthcare IT (HIT) sector believe. Further adding validation to the HDM quick poll are the results of an online survey that the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society [...]
