The big health IT industry confab HIMSS kicks off one week from today. With some 28 briefings scheduled over 2.5 days, the Chilmark Research team will be extremely busy to say the least. It is with that in mind that Chilmark has prepared the top 5 do’s and don’ts that all vendors need to keep [...]
Posts Tagged ‘HIMSS’
Top 5 Do’s & Don’ts for Speaking with Analysts at HIMSS
Posted in EHR, HIE, HIT, mHealth, PHR, tagged analyst, cloud computing, HIMSS on February 22, 2010 | 6 Comments »
HIT Market White Hot
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIT, tagged acquisitions, acquistion, healthcare IT, HIMSS, HIT on February 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Doing some quick analysis of the healthcare IT market and have uncovered some 17 HIT software acquisitions since beginning of year. Is this but a lead up to the big industry confab, HIMSS that begins in a few short weeks? Certainly, the market is in desperate need of consolidation. Recent actions are likely but a [...]
CCHIT has a Seat at Table – for Now
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIT, policy, Privacy, Security, standards, tagged CCHIT, HIMSS, HITECH Act, ONC. ARRA on August 14, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Today, the HIT Policy Committee met once again, this time to hammer out what the term “certified EHR” means within the context of future ARRA reimbursements to physicians and hospitals. Chilmark sat in on the discussions, here is our assessment of what transpired. (See yesterday’s post, below, as to why the Certification issue is critical.) [...]
Meaningful Use by June 16th
Posted in EHR, EMR, policy, tagged ARRA, CCHIT, certified EHR, HIMSS, meaningful use, ONC on June 5, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Yesterday, at an mHealth event in Washington DC, Michael Fitzmaurice of AHRQ stated: We’ll tell the world what meaningful use is on 6/16. Referring to the next meeting of the ONC Policy Committee.If this indeed comes true, Chilmark will feel pretty good about this as it is something we predicted back on April 30th. Many [...]
CCHIT Attempts to Set Record Straight
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIT, policy, tagged CCHIT, Dr. Kibbe, HIMSS, Mark Leavitt, Markle Foundation on May 27, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Mark Leavitt, the leader of CCHIT has apparently had enough and has gone on the offense with a recent post defending the organization he represents and attacking naysayers, particularly Dr. David Kibbe who was recently quoted in a Washington Post article. Is Leavitt’s post a desperate act from an organization who seems to be coming [...]
How to Win Billions for Your Members
Posted in PHR, tagged ARRA, HIMSS on May 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Washington Post on Saturday had an interesting article that profiles how HIMSS, through strong lobbying efforts, was able to land the huge ARRA windfall for its member HIT vendors. Great lessons here for those looking to tap the federal spigot, though doubt many will have such luck in timing as HIMSS had in this instance. [...]
HIMSS’09 & Depression
Posted in consumer health, tagged HIMSS, HIMSS09 on April 8, 2009 | 14 Comments »
The big annual HIMSS confab wraps up tomorrow and as I reflect back on my days here a feeling of doom and gloom prevades my thoughts. Sure, the HIMSS team did their usual superior job of conference execution that went ahead like the well oiled machine that it is. Sure, there were plenty of informative [...]
HIMSS-CCHIT Controversary Continues to Simmer
Posted in EHR, EMR, eRx, policy, tagged AHIC, CCHIT, HIMSS, HITECH Act on March 9, 2009 | 8 Comments »
As most of you well know, a certain Calvin Jablonski liked to comment here at Chilmark Research taking some pretty hard shots at the EMR certification organization, CCHIT and the close relationship between CCHIT and the vendor organization HIMSS. Jablonski’s comments raised the ire of the HIMSS executive suite leading to a calling out of [...]
What is HIMSS Afraid of?
Posted in Privacy, tagged CCHIT, HIMSS on February 25, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Wow, is Chilmark Research getting popular! Today, we received a letter from the law offices of Jackson Lewis LLP who are acting on behalf of HIMSS. It appears that this website has gained a certain notoriety through comments left by a “Calvin Jablonski” (search and you’ll find them) on a number of posts. As it [...]
HIMSS Joins Auto Industry to Hold Out the Hat
Posted in policy, tagged CCHIT, HIMSS, HIT, HITSP on December 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, the industry group HIMSS released their blueprint for the incoming Obama administration. Quoting the Executive Summary, the blueprint makes the following recommendations (our perspective in italics): Invest a minimum of $25 billion in health IT to help non-governmental hospitals and physician practices adopt electronic medical records (EMRs). Additional funding should be allocated to cover EMR [...]
