Couple of weeks back Microsoft’s HealthVault announced a strategic partnership with McKesson’ RelayHealth for which I wrote a short post. Following up on the announcement, I recently had the opportunity to speak with RelayHealth’s General Manager, Ken Tarkoff, who provided further background on this partnership. Key Points from Interview: A strategic partnership, there is co-development [...]
Posts Tagged ‘HealthVault’
Connecting the Ecosystem: Interview with RelayHealth
Posted in EMR, Google, Microsoft, PHR, telehealth, tagged HealthVault, iPhone, RelayHealth on August 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday in DC: AHIC Mtg Highlights
Posted in Google, Microsoft, PHR, policy, Privacy, tagged AHIC, Dossia, HealthVault, PHI, PHS, Sec. Leavitt on July 30, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Yesterday, I had the honor to present to Sec. Leavitt and the AHIC on trends and projections for personal health information. As I had only a brief 10 minutes to work with, I needed to put together a dense set of slides to hit the high points of what is happening in the PHR market. [...]
Lacking Imagination – Be Well Fund Chooses Winners
Posted in consumer health, Microsoft, PHR, tagged HealthVault on June 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Just got a press release from the fine folks at Microsoft announcing the 15 winners of the Be Well Fund. The Be Well Fund was established to help fund the development of novel applications for HealthVault at non-profit institutions. After an enormous out-pouring of ideas (over 200 proposals submitted) Microsoft raised the fund from an [...]
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 [...]
Why Extending HIPAA to PHRs is NOT a Good Idea
Posted in Google, Microsoft, PHR, Privacy, tagged Dossia, HealthVault, HIPAA, NEJM, UCLA Medical Center on May 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There has been a lot of talk about extending current HIPAA regulations to address non-covered entities, particularly PHR vendors. Many believe that this is what is needed to preserve consumer privacy. There was even an article last month in the New England Journal of Medicine by the creators of the Dossia platform, Indivo that unfortunately [...]
Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me…
Posted in consumer health, Dossia, Google, Microsoft, PHS, tagged Alzheimer's, diabetes, Dossia, Google Health, HealthVault, obesity, RevolutionHealth, WebMD on March 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There are any number of statistics that one can point to telling us we in serious trouble. From the epidemic that is obesity to the persistent climb in diabetes cases and let us not forget Alzheimer’s, a disease that cripples many an elderly adult and is projected to rise to some 16 million cases in [...]
How Open is Open? or Did I Speak to Soon?
Posted in Microsoft, tagged CeBIT, HealthVault, Microsoft, Open on March 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Quite a big splash was made by Microsoft when it announced that it was opening itself up by publishing specifications to much of its source code to promote interoperability. Sean Nolan, chief architect for HealthVault, made an announcement similar to this which I referenced in a post on the implications of this move by Microsoft. [...]
Good Post on Google & Microsoft Platforms
Posted in consumer health, Google, Microsoft, PHR, tagged AHIMA, Google, health, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHR on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Vince, over on his e-Care Management blog has a good post up today where he compares the respective consumer healthcare platforms from Microsoft (HealthVault) and Google Health. Bottom line for Vince is that there are more similarities than differences between these two initiatives and that consumer engagement will be their collective top challenge. Certainly agree [...]
