Acquisition fever has set in and they’re dropping like flies, independent HIE vendors that is. Earlier today, Siemens announced its intent to acquire enterprise HIE vendor MobileMD. So in little over a year we have seen IBM snag Initiate, Axolotl fall into the hands of Ingenix/United Health Group (Ingenix is now known as OptumInsight), Medicity [...]
Posts Tagged ‘IBM’
Siemens Jumps into HIE Waters
Posted in Acquisition, Analytics, HIE, HIT, Microsoft, tagged 4medica, AllScripts, Axolotl, Care Evolution, Certified Data systems, dbMotion, HealthUnity, IBM, ICA, ICW, InterSystems, Kryptiq, Medicity, MobileMD, Oracle, Orion Health, Siemens, Wellogic on November 4, 2011 | 19 Comments »
Dr. Watson I Presume
Posted in ACO, Analytics, Cloud Computing, Health Cloud, HIT, telemedicine, tagged IBM, Watson, WellPoint on October 18, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Little over a month ago, IBM and WellPoint announced an agreement wherein WellPoint will deploy IBM’s latest and greatest super computer and artificial intelligence mega-mind Watson. Watson’s claim to fame was its ability to beat the human Jeopardy champions much like Big Blue beat reigning chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. Since that Jeopardy match, IBM [...]
Trash Talk vs. Reality
Posted in HIE, Microsoft, tagged Aetna, Axolotl, IBM, Medicity on March 2, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Spreading FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) is one of the most common sales tactics used against a competitor. I’m never surprised to hear some FUD being thrown around at a major trade show like HIMSS, but this year it seemed to be particularly virulent among the many vendors I spoke to, which did surprise me. [...]
The Great Land Grab of 2010 or the Play for State HIEs
Posted in HIE, policy, tagged ARRA, Axolotl, GE Healthcare, HHS, HITECH Act, IBM, Initiate, InterSystems, Medicity on February 25, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The first major distribution of HITECH Act funds occurred a couple of weeks ago when HHS awarded nearly $1 billion for HIT initiatives including $386 million to 40 states and territories to help establish public Health Information Exchanges (HIEs). This represents the lion’s share of the original $564 million allocated for Statewide HIE development under [...]
IBM Strengthens Healthcare Play, Picks up Initiate
Posted in EHR, HIE, HIT, Microsoft, tagged acquisition, ARRA, HITECH Act, IBM, Initiate, Oracle on February 3, 2010 | 6 Comments »
This morning, IBM announced that it will acquire leading healthcare Master Data Management (MDM) vendor, Initiate for an undisclosed sum. The healthcare IT (HIT) sector is white hot right now so it is likely IBM paid a pretty penny for Initiate, the clear healthcare market leader in Master Patient Index (MPI) technology. Combining Initiate sales [...]
IBM Making a Move on Exchanges?
Posted in Google Health, HealthVault, tagged eHI, HIE, IBM, RHIO on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today, IBM announced that it has signed-on eHealth Initiative (eHI) CEO, Janet Marchibroda as their new chief healthcare officer. A somewhat odd title as she is not a doctor, but that is really not the issue here. To date, IBM has been somewhat missing from action in all the HIT buzz with most of the [...]
IBM Looks to the Clouds, Industry-Specific Clouds
Posted in PHR, tagged cloud computing, Health Cloud, IBM, mHealth on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just stumbled across this article, during the course of research for upcoming Health Cloud report. IBM is sponsoring research at a number of universities around the globe all looking at specific Cloud Computing applications in specific industry sectors. What we found of particular interest in the article is the research in health cloud computing that [...]
Where’s the $$$? or Economic Meltdown and HIT
Posted in consumer health, RHIO, tagged adoption, economy, HIE, HIT trends, IBM, Patients Like Me, PatientsLikeMe, policy, WebMD on October 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This morning’s Wall Street Journal has an article, first page – Section B, highlighting the growing impact of the financial crisis on the IT industry. The enterprise software powerhouse, SAP, shocked investors earlier this week when it warned that it would not meet its 3rd Qtr target, citing slowness in the mid-market. Another tech company, [...]
