While Google let Cleveland Clinic do most of the talking about their partnership (only a small quote in the Cleveland Clinic PR from Marissa), Google did have a Blog posting by one of the software engineers on their healthcare team, Alan Newberger which was posted yesterday. Pretty thin post that will tell you nothing new, [...]
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Google’s Semi-official Announcement
Posted in Google, PHR, tagged Adam Bosworth, Alan Newberger, Cleveland Clinic, Google, Marissa Mayer on February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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. [...]
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 [...]
Privacy Advocacy Group Attacks PHRs
Posted in consumer health, Dossia, Google, Microsoft, PHP, PHR, policy, Privacy, Security, tagged consumer, Dossia, Google, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHR, policy, Privacy on February 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Today, the World Privacy Forum released a report, Personal Health Records: Why Many PHRs Threaten Privacy. Both the 16 page report and a shorter, 5 page consumer advisory report can be found here. There was also an article today referencing the report in the San Fransisco Chronicle. While the report does not give names of [...]
Big News – Microsoft Fulfills Promise, HealthVault Opens Up
Posted in CCD, CCR, Dossia, Google, Microsoft, PHR, PHS, tagged .Net, CCD, CCR, Codeplex, Dossia, Google, HealthVault, Microsoft, PDF Healthcare, PHR on February 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Received a note from a Microsoft representative today with some pretty big news regarding HealthVault. The news centers around efforts that the HealthVault team are taking to simplify the development, by partners, of solutions that will leverage the HealthVault platform. These efforts can be broken down into three distinct steps: Creating a number of “open-wrapper” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Poof and It’s Gone
Posted in Google, PHR, tagged Google, HIMSS, PHR on January 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just dropped by the Google Health Beta site that appeared last week – it’s gone. Either Google achieved its goal of generating some early buzz – is this a new form of viral marketing? – or they an inadvertently released this landing page and had to do some retrenching. My hunch is that it was [...]
Update: Google Closes Kimono
Posted in Dossia, Google, Microsoft, PHR, tagged Dosia, Google, Health Beta, HIMSS, Microsoft, PHR on January 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Google, inadvertently, then again maybe not – wanting to create some buzz in the market, exposed a landing page one would use to enter Google Health Beta via your Gmail log-in. Landing page also offered a quick link to take tour. After my morning meeting, as promised in previous post, I went to site to [...]
NEWS FLASH: Google Opens Kimono Offering Health Beta
Posted in consumer health, Google, PHR, PHS, SaaS, tagged Google, Microsoft, PHR, SaaS on January 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today, Google opened the doors to a Beta version of its consumer health site. Based on that landing page, quite clear that unlike Microsoft, Google will offer a full fledged Personal Health Record (PHR) for the consumer. In addition to the base PHR functionality they will be providing, Google Health Beta will also offer a [...]
