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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘HIT’
HIMSS or Bust
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIE, HIT, mHealth, RHIO, tagged healthcare, healthcare IT, HIMSS'11, HIT on February 7, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Relax Meaningful Use… but Not Too Much
Posted in CCD, CCR, consumer health, EHR, EMR, Google Health, HealthVault, policy, tagged HIT, meaningful use on March 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Reading through the headlines, the press releases and checking in on today’s HIT Policy Committee meeting, it appears that the over-riding theme of comments regarding Meaningful Use (MU) rules (these were due by COB on 3/15) is to relax the rules, particularly regarding reimbursement and clarify other requirements of MU to ease the burden on [...]
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 [...]
The Consumer Role Post Stimulus
Posted in consumer health, EHR, PHR, policy, tagged ARRA, eHI, HHS, HIT, Stimulus Act on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After the $36B+ has been spent on what is hoped is the digitization of the healthcare sector via adoption of EHRs, what will be the consumer role? That was the question put to four speakers yesterday as part of the eHealth Initiative webcast that Chilmark Research participated in yesterday. Other speakers included: Phil Marshall of [...]
HIMSS 09 – Reports from the Field
Posted in EHR, EMR, eRx, Google Health, HealthVault, HIE, Microsoft, PHR, RHIO, SaaS, tagged HIMSS09, HIT on April 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Over the last week we have not been as diligent in providing posts on happenings in the HIT market (we try to do at least 4/wk) as we prepared for the big industry confab, HIMSS09. Are dance card for HIMSS is completely packed with briefings across a wide expanse of the market, from some of [...]
Stimulus Package, HITECH Act and Ossification of HIT
Posted in CCD, standards, tagged EHR, HIT, HITECH Act, Stimulus, stimulus package, technology adoption on February 3, 2009 | 16 Comments »
We are heading down the wrong path. Despite the rounds of applause from virtually all sectors of the healthcare establishment (AHA, HIMSS, AllScripts’ customers, etc.) the HITECH Act, as currently drafted in the Stimulus Bill (both House and Senate versions of HITECH are quite similar), will ossify healthcare IT (HIT) completely stagnating innovation in HIT. [...]
HR 1: Stimulus Package and HIT
Posted in EHR, policy, Privacy, standards, tagged CCHIT, certification, HIT, HITECH Act, HR 1, innovation, ONCHIT, stimulus package on January 26, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Just finished reading/scanning HR 1, the House Stimulus bill focusing on the HIT section, to which some $20B greenbacks will flow. This Bill just went just the Appropriations Committee and will likely pass the full house later this week. The HITECH Act (HIT for Economic and Clinical Health), is massive at some 190 pages, beginning [...]
HIT Part of Stimulus Package, Rumor $25B
Posted in policy, tagged HIT, stimulus package on January 5, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Well, looks like one of our 2009 predictions may already be toast. We predicted that despite all the hype, federal funding for healthcare IT would not be forthcoming in 2009. Our reasoning was simple, there are so many sectors seeking some sort of financial rescue, HIT would not make the cut in 2009 but would [...]
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 [...]
Targeting Digital Natives
Posted in consumer health, policy, tagged adoption, digital natives, HIT on November 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Late last week, the MacArthur Foundation released the results of a seminal, 3-year ethnographic study that looked closely at how youth are using new media in their everyday lives. For the report, Living & Learning with New Media, some 800 youth were studied which included over 5,000 hours of observations of online activity. Researchers were [...]
