The numerous changes in the healthcare sector are forcing stakeholders to develop new business models to prosper, to survive. Among health insurers, this means one thing: diversification. Health reform was the nail in the coffin of yesterday’s business model, a model that had no restrictions on margins, a model where payers sold to businesses, not [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Medicity’
Forecast and Ramifications of Payers in the HIE Market: Part One
Posted in Cloud Computing, EHR, HIE, policy, standards, tagged Lumeris, Medicity, NaviNet, Optum, payers on February 16, 2012 | 1 Comment »
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 »
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 [...]
Who Will be the Salesforce.com of Healthcare IT?
Posted in Acquisition, Analytics, Cloud Computing, CMS, EHR, EMR, mHealth, Microsoft, tagged Axolotl, Covisint, CRM, Dreamforce 2011, Kryptiq, Medicity, Oracle, Salesforce.com, Siebel, SureScripts on September 7, 2011 | 24 Comments »
Last week was the massive Salesforce.com user conference Dreamforce (massive in that there were more attendees at Dreamforce then this year’s HIMSS!). We’ve been reviewing more than a few articles and writings written by those who attended the event. In the few short years of its existence (~13yrs) Salesforce.com has become one of the leading [...]
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. [...]
HIE Report is Released
Posted in Analytics, EHR, Health Cloud, health portals, HIE, Microsoft, SaaS, tagged Axolotl, Carefx, Covisint, health information exchange, InterSystems, MEDecision, Medicity, MEDSEEK, MobileMD, Orion Health, RelayHealth on January 24, 2011 | 5 Comments »
The long awaited, dare I say anticipated HIE Market Report is now complete and ready for purchase. This report, arguably the most comprehensive report yet published on this rapidly evolving market (116pgs, 21 vendors profiled, 0ver 25 tables and figures) will provide the reader with a detailed portrait of today’s HIE Market, its leading vendors, [...]
Another HUGE Acquisition in HIE Market
Posted in HIE, HIT, tagged acquisition, Aetna, Axolotl, Ingenix, Medicity on December 7, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Just as we are trying to put the final touches to the forthcoming HIE Market Report, another major HIE vendor gets acquired and again it is a very big fish swallowing a small and very pricey little fish. Geez, they are making our life difficult here at Chilmark. This morning, Aetna announced that it will [...]
Assessment: Ingenix Makes HIE Move Acquiring Axolotl
Posted in Analytics, EHR, EMR, HIE, HIT, P4P, tagged acquisition, Axolotl, Elysium, Elysium Express, iNexx, Ingenix, Medicity, Microsoft, PaaS on August 23, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Last week, Ingenix announced that it would be acquiring Axolotl. Probably no one was happier than the folks at Gilat Satellite Networks who had invested $4.5M in Axolotl over ten years ago, had written off that investment during the dot-com bust in 2001 and now is looking at getting some $24M in cash plus another [...]
AllScripts+Eclipsys, Who Loses?
Posted in Analytics, EHR, EMR, HIE, HIT, tagged acquisition, AllScripts, ARRA, dbMotion, eClinicalWorks, Eclipsys, Medicity, NextGen on June 9, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Today, leading ambulatory EHR vendor AllScripts announced that it will merge (it’s really acquire) with one of the larger acute care EHR vendors, Eclipsys creating one of the largest EHR vendors in the market with some 180,000 physicians using their solutions. This acquisition is being driven not by ARRA and all the taxpayer dollars flowing [...]
Where’s the Beef?
Posted in EHR, EMR, Health Cloud, HIE, Microsoft, tagged iNexx, Medicity, PaaS on May 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Awhile back, Chilmark received a briefing from Medicity about their forthcoming iNexx platform. We liked what we saw. iNexx fit our model of where the HIE and more broadly, the HIT market is headed, particularly for the far-flung small ambulatory practices that make up the vast percentage of where most people receive their care. It [...]
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 [...]