The rapid adoption of smartphones and now touch-screen tablets (e.g., iPad) by clinicians will trigger enormous growth in the use of mHealth Apps within healthcare enterprises, with the market for mHealth in the enterprise projected to reach $1.7B by end of year 2014. Similar to the hockey stick growth for mobile shown in the slide [...]
Posts Tagged ‘iPhone’
mHealth in the Enterprise Set to Explode
Posted in EHR, mHealth, tagged ARRA, CDS, charge capture, CPOE, HIS, HITECH Act, iOS, iPad, iPhone, meaningful use, smartphone, tablet, touchscreen tablet on November 22, 2010 | 14 Comments »
What do WebMD’s Q3 Numbers Tell Us?
Posted in consumer health, Dossia, Google Health, HealthVault, PHR, tagged BCBS-MA, employer, iPhone, payer, WebMD on November 4, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Yesterday, the big 800lb gorilla in the PHR market, WebMD announced 3rd quarter earnings that were quite mixed. While its public portal business continues to see strong growth in uniques (now over 83M visitors/month) and advertising revenues that grew 26%, its private portal business continues to produce lackluster results, with flat revenue and holding steady [...]
Dipping Into the Waters of Mobile Health
Posted in mHealth, tagged eClinicalWorks, Cerner, Epic, McKesson, iPhone, ePocrates, Android, Medscape, AllScripts, iPad, NextGen, Greenway, Meditech on August 31, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Introductory Remarks: Chilmark Research is pleased to welcome a new addition to our staff, Cora Sharma. Cora will be leading our research efforts in the mobile health app market (mHealth) and below is her first post on the subject. Cora has a great background having received a BSc in Computer Science, worked in the software [...]
Apple Targets Healthcare Enterprise
Posted in PHR, tagged AllScripts, Apple, case studies, ePocrates, iPhone on March 23, 2010 | 12 Comments »
While the Apple iPhone was first targeted at the general consumer, Apple has been taking the necessary steps to bring this device into the enterprise, directly competing with RIM’s Blackberry. Unseating the Blackberry in many sectors, such as finance, may be near impossible but healthcare is another story. Within healthcare, Palm, with its Treo was [...]
iTriage: A Business Model Gaining Traction
Posted in consumer health, mHealth, tagged Android, doublecheckMD, HCA, Healthagen, iPhone, iTriage, PharmaSURVEYOR on October 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »
iTriage is a slick iPhone app that we first took a look at back in April. A couple of weeks back we had a chance to meet with the CEO, Dr. Peter Hudson (yes, he’s an ER doc who still practices medicine) who was in Boston to attend a conference. During that meeting, Peter gave [...]
CHIP Chimes In: Let’s Build an iPhone Platform for HIT
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIT, mHealth, policy, tagged ARRA, CCHIT, iPhone, meaningful use, ONC on June 17, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Just received an email this afternoon from Children’s Health Informatics Progam (CHIP) here in Boston announcing the release of a workshop derived document: Ten Principles for Fostering Development of an “iPhone-like” Platform for Healthcare Information Technology. Not sure if release was serendepidous or not but timing is interesting in light of yesterday’s release of Draft [...]
Sad Scale is One Sad App
Posted in consumer health, mHealth, tagged AppStore, depression, iPhone, mHealth, mood disorders, Sad Scale on June 4, 2009 | 9 Comments »
While it seems that there are an unlimited number of consumer-facing mobile apps for calorie counting/diets, exercise, menstrual calendars and symptom checking, Chilmark has been somewhat struck by the dearth of apps focusing on mood disorders. Not sure why that is, but we were pleasantly surprised when Sad Scale showed up on the iPhone AppStore. [...]
Atlas of the Human Brain, Cool iPhone App, but Could be Even Better
Posted in PHR, tagged iPhone, medical apps, mHealth, neurology, Sylvius MR on May 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Recently Chilmark Research was a provided a free copy of the iPhone app, Atlas of the Brain by Sylvius MR. Atlas of the Brain is an app targeting the medical community and can be found within the medical apps section of the iTunes store. Following is the review written for the website, medmacs, which was [...]
iTriage: Is this the Future of mHealth Apps?
Posted in consumer health, tagged Healthagen, HealthGrades, iPhone, iTriage, mHealth, Teladoc on April 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Couple of weeks back had the opportunity to talk to the CEO and CMO of Healthagen, developers of the iPhone app, iTriage a new, consumer-facing app with some interesting twists, including partnerships with Coalition America, HealthGrades and TelaDoc. iTriage can be found on the Apple iTunes store for less than a dollar. The co-creators of [...]
Apple iPhone 3.0: New Possibilities for Health & Wellness Apps
Posted in consumer health, tagged iPhone, John & Johnson, LifeScan, mHealth on March 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Today, Apple introduced its latest OS for the iPhone, V3.0. This new version is a tremendous upgrade from the previous version and will allow Apple, we believe, to continue to dominate the mobile App market. The website gdgt live has been providing great live coverage of the event today and encourage you to go there [...]
