It is almost becoming the norm to say that it has been another tumultuous year in the healthcare IT market. Market consolidation, pushback on timelines, growing chorus from IT departments that enough is enough against the backdrop of the political circus in Washington and across the land as we prepare for the 2012 election year. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘mHealth’
Looking Back on 2011 – What A Strange Year It’s Been
Posted in ACO, Acquisition, Analytics, Cloud Computing, consumer health, EHR, EMR, Health Cloud, health portals, HealthVault, HIE, mHealth, Microsoft, PHR, policy, RHIO, SaaS, standards, telehealth, tagged Direct Project, GE, HIMSS'12, mHealth on December 23, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Re-entry into Healthcare
Posted in consumer health, EHR, mHealth, PHR, tagged Cerner, FDA, meaningful use, mHealth, ONC, Stage 2, WebMD on July 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
As with the last shuttle mission making its re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere yesterday, I am re-entering the world of healthcare IT after an extended family vacation in the wilds of Alaska. No, I did not see John Halamka up there, it is after all a VERY BIG state, but I did get the chance [...]
State of the Web & Mobile Device Impact
Posted in mHealth, tagged adoption trends, Internet, mHealth, mobile on November 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday, Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker gave her annual presentation on the State of the Web 2010. As always, she has done her homework with some excellent stats presented that draw some provokative conclusions. While this presentation looks at the broader market, it is not too hard to start connecting the dots and apply some [...]
Don’t Rule-out the Mobile Browser
Posted in EHR, EMR, Privacy, SaaS, Security, standards, tagged mHealth on October 7, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Henry J. Feldman, M.D., instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). Dr. Feldman also serves as Chief Information Architect in addition to practicing as a hospitalist at BIDMC. Dr. Feldman discussed BIDMC’s platform-agnostic mobile strategy, whereby clinicians access all [...]
Is the mHealth Hype Justified?
Posted in consumer health, Google Health, HealthVault, PHR, telehealth, telemedicine, tagged Deloitte, mHealth, PWC on September 10, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Over the last few weeks there has been a lot of hype regarding mHealth. In late August Deloitte published an Issue Brief: The Mobile Personal Health Record (mPHR) that led to the conclusion that an mPHR will become the “killer app” healthcare app for the consumer. Then we have PWC who released their own report: [...]
A Bite of the Apple
Posted in consumer health, Google, tagged Android, Apple, clinical groupware, iOS4.0, iPhone 4, mHealth on June 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday, with much fanfare, Steve Jobs took the stage at Apple’s annual developer conference and announced the pending release of the next iteration of the iPhone. While there has been plenty of press regarding this release, both before (and Apple’s Dark Lord tactics) and after, Job’s presentation also highlighted a number of facts and figures [...]
Learnings from mHealth Summit
Posted in consumer health, mHealth, telehealth, telemedicine, tagged mHealth, mobile health on October 30, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Over the last two days, been attending the Foundation for the NIH’s event, the mHealth Summit. This being its inaugural year, the event has been covering a wide gambit of issues, but the majority of panel sessions, keynotes and what not have focused on the use of mHealth tech for addressing public health needs in [...]
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 | 4 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 [...]