Ok, before I even begin, let me put it right out there: I’ve been using Apple products since I first got my hands on one of those cute little Mac SEs in the late 80′s having given up my spanking, brand new Compaq 386 with 64kb of RAM and a dual 3.5 & 5.25 floppy [...]
Posts Tagged ‘healthcare’
Why Apple iPad will Dominate in the Enterprise
Posted in Google, mHealth, tagged Android, App Store, Apple, healthcare, healthcare IT, iPad, iPad 2 on March 10, 2011 | 4 Comments »
HIMSS or Bust
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIE, HIT, mHealth, RHIO, tagged healthcare, healthcare IT, HIMSS'11, HIT on February 7, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Two extremely short weeks from today will be the official start of that annual healthcare IT (HIT) confab called HIMSS. Tens of thousands will gather to hear the latest and greatest on how HIT will deliver unfathomable rewards to all who adopt. Of course there will also be those discussions that if you aren’t on [...]
Defining a Maturity Model for HIEs
Posted in Analytics, Health Cloud, HIE, HIT, tagged healthcare, maturity model on January 27, 2011 | 29 Comments »
Before entering the convoluted healthcare IT sector, I had worked in the manufacturing sector both as an IT analyst and in corporate strategy for Europe’s second largest enterprise software company. In those many years I learn quite a bit about not only how to effectively deploy large enterprise software systems (SAP, PeopleSoft, i2, PTC, SSA, [...]
iPad in Healthcare: A Game Changer?
Posted in consumer health, EHR, EMR, HIT, mHealth, policy, tagged adoption, Apple, ARRA, healthcare, HITECH Act, iPad, medical, medical education on April 8, 2010 | 18 Comments »
There have been a lot of discussions on the Net regarding the potential impact of the iPad in the healthcare sector. At this point, there is very little agreement with some pointing to the ubiquitous nature of the iPhone in healthcare as a foreshadowing of the iPad’s future impact, while others point to the modest [...]
KP Flexing EMR Data for Public Health
Posted in Analytics, EHR, EMR, tagged healthcare, Kaiser Permanente, research on May 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Don’t vaccinate your child for whooping cough and put them at a 23x greater risk of contracting this nasty disease. That is the finding of a research report released today by Kaiser-Permanente (KP). Last week Chilmark Research had the opportunity to speak with the lead researcher, Dr. Jason Glanz of KP on this research project [...]
Healthcare IT, Politics & the Election Tomorrow
Posted in policy, tagged healthcare, HIT, Senator John Kerry on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We do not like to venture down the path of healthcare policy discussions for the simple reason that there are far too many people far brighter and knowledgeable than us on the subject who we defer to, and besides, where would our differentiation be in what is already an extremely crowded market of political & [...]
Health 2.0 Wrap-up
Posted in PHR, tagged AHIC, Health 2.0, healthcare, policy on October 23, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Couple of long days and now listening to the wrap-up panel, Looking Ahead – The Business and Society of Health 2.0. One of the panel members, David Lansky, formally of Markle Foundation and now heading up the business healthcare group, Pacific Business Group on Health. Disturbing statement from Lansky was that he worked with Matthew [...]
Frisco Bound
Posted in consumer health, tagged financial impact, Health 2.0, healthcare, HIT on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fly out today to the Health 2.0 conference which begins tomorrow. With some 1,000+ attendees, this event will certainly be buzzing, but what we are most interested to learn is what is really working, both pre and post financial bust. One look at the agenda and you can clearly see that there is a tremendous [...]
Tradition Grapples with Insatiable Demand
Posted in consumer health, EHR, EMR, Google, Microsoft, PHR, policy, Privacy, Security, tagged CIO, healthcare, HIT on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dan Nigrin, the CIO from Children’s Hospital Boston set the tone at this morning’s meeting stating what keeps him up at night is struggling with the insatiable demand for HIT among care providers (espeically newer and younger staff members) at Children’s while concurrently dealing with an industry that is so bound by tradition. On one [...]
Not Surprising, Federal HIT Funding Stalls
Posted in EHR, EMR, tagged healthcare, HIMSS, IT on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In a brief article late last week, trade magazine Healthcare IT reports that federal funding for healthcare IT initiatives appears to have stalled. Can’t say as I am all that surprised. This is after all an election year, a time when many government activities get put into stasis to await the next administration. Combining this [...]
