WebMD announced first quarter earnings today that showed continued lackluster results for their “Private Portal” division, slipping roughly 5% year over year from $23M to $21.8M. Now one could argue that the overall decline in employment due to the recession is to blame for the drop in clients from 134 to 131 in Q1-2010, but [...]
Posts Tagged ‘PHR’
WebMD’s Private Portal Business Continues Slide
Posted in PHR, tagged consumer health, PHR, WebMD on May 4, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Meaningful Use: A Driver for PHR Growth?
Posted in consumer health, Health Cloud, PHR, tagged ARRA, HHS, HITECH Act, meaningful use, PHR on May 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Information Exchange in support of care coordination is one of the three meaningful use criteria cited in the ARRA (Stimulus) legislation, with the other two being demonstrated use of eRx and ablity to provide quality reporting metrics. In many conversations and presentations though, it appears that the consensus view is that “Information Exchange” is that [...]
Live Tweets of Google Health Webcast
Posted in PHR, tagged Google Health, PHR on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sitting in on the webcast by Google today, most discussions is focusing on Google Health. Doing “live tweets” via twitter which you’ll find at john_chilmark
What Might an Ideal EHR Look Like?
Posted in consumer health, EHR, EMR, PHR, tagged EHR, EMR, PHR on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Blog I frequently visit is that of John Halamka, the CIO at Boston based Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital. Halamka is also one of those people that has seemingly unlimited amounts of energy, is on all sorts of committees and arguably, one of the sharper minds out there with a deep understanding of healthcare IT. [...]
Dis-information Among Those in the Know
Posted in EHR, Google, Microsoft, PHR, Privacy, tagged Dossia, EHR, EMC, Google Health, Microsoft, PHR, Privacy, wellness on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here I am at the World Health Care Congress with what appears to be all the major movers and shakers in the healthcare sector, Chairmans, CEOs, Presidents, EVPs – some really big names, some very powerful players. Now I will never claim to be as brilliant as these people, after all, I’m writing this sitting [...]
WHCC & Reports from the Field
Posted in consumer health, PHR, policy, tagged Aetna, Cigna, consumer health, Dossia, Google Health, Microsoft, PHR, WellPoint, WHCC on April 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ll be attending the World Health Care Congress (WHCC) here in Washington DC getting my fill of all things healthcare and most likely an overdose on policy – after all, this is Washington. The people who put on the WHCC have put together quite an impressive agenda with so many different and what look to [...]
Hitting the PHR Conundrum on the Head
Posted in consumer health, Google, PHR, Privacy, Security, tagged consumer, PHR, Privacy on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As many who read here know, one of the biggest challenges I’ve discussed regarding consumer adoption of PHRs is making these systems simple and automated. Simple – as in the example of what Google has done to create a great, yet simple to use interface. Automated – to automatically populate a consumer’s PHR with pertinent [...]
Privacy Problem Not Limited to PHR Vendors
Posted in consumer health, Google, PHR, policy, Privacy, Security, tagged PHR, Privacy, Security on April 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »
While there has been plenty of press on privacy and security as it relates to PHR vendors, especially now that Google and Microsoft have jumped into the arena, it is absolutely critical that the press, various “privacy pundits” and the consumer realize that this issue is not just limited to PHR vendors. Sure, it’s easy [...]
Employers Taking Long-View Look to PHRs
Posted in PHR, policy, Dossia, tagged PHR, costs, Dossia, employers, Hewit, Towers-Perrin on April 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve uncovered a couple of recent reports that add to the growing body of evidence that employers will be one of the key markets for Web-based PHR vendors in the future. Going beyond the simple visibility that efforts such as the employer consortium Dossia platform will bring to the [...]
Web Visits Gets Air Time
Posted in consumer health, EMR, eRx, PHR, tagged Aetna, Cigna, e-Consultations, PHR, RelayHealth on April 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This morning, on National Public Radio’s (NPR) Morning Edition, there was a nice 5 minute segment on e-Consultations. With the two big insurers Aetna and Cigna now reimbursing physicians for conducting such e-Consultations, we will be seeing much more of this in the future. During the NPR spot they interviewed an internist who actively performs [...]
