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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘RHIO’
IBM Making a Move on Exchanges?
Posted in Google Health, HealthVault, tagged eHI, HIE, IBM, RHIO on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Why HIEs Succeed and RHIOs Languish
Posted in consumer health, tagged healthcare policy, HIE, NHIN, RHIO, supply chain on August 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Back at the beginning of the year, I did a Top Ten Predictions post where one of the predictions was the continued struggles of Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) and the steady rise of Health Information Exchanges (HIEs). Since much of the ballyhooed National Health Information Network (NHIN) is built upon the premise of RHIOs [...]
Naturally, Govt. Looks to Google and Microsoft
Posted in CMS, consumer health, Dossia, Google, HIE, Microsoft, PHR, PHS, policy, RHIO, Security, tagged Dossia, Google Health, Harris, Microsoft HealthVault, NHIN, RHIO on March 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
With a poor track record to date getting Regional Health Information Organizations off the ground, the Office of the Coordinator of Health Information Technology within HHS is now looking to expand the National Health Information Network (NHIN) to exchange data with both Google Health and Microsoft’s HealthVault. But first the Feds look to be scaling [...]
Taking Baby Steps, Google & Cleveland Clinic Partner on PHRs
Posted in Dossia, EMR, Google, health portals, Microsoft, PHR, PHS, RHIO, tagged Cleveland Clinic, Dossia, EMR, Epic, Google, HealthVault, Microsoft, NHIN, PHR, RHIO on February 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Late yesterday, the Cleveland Clinic announced that they have partnered with Google to do a pilot (beta) of the Google PHR. Cleveland Clinic intends to allow, by invitation, about 1-10% of its existing 100,000+ users of the Epic-based patient portal (a tethered PHR) called MyChart to participate in this trial. Stated purpose is to test [...]
Civic Duty?
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIE, PHR, policy, RHIO, standards, tagged Alliance, EHR, EMR, HHS, HIE, HIMSS, HIT, PHR, RHIO, standards on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you get bored of walking the aisles of HIMSS and can’t bear to hear another vendor pitch, well you could always wander over to a session where people will gather to discuss and reach consensus on what are arguably the 5 most used acronyms in the industry. You can contribute to the discussion as [...]
ONC Budget Flatlined – RHIOs Hit, PHRs Saved from Meddling
Posted in PHR, PHS, policy, RHIO, tagged Dossia, Microsoft, ONC, PHR, PHS, RHIO on January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the recently passed 2008 Federal budget, Bush did not get his requested increase for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). Instead, Congress flat-lined ONC’s budget for 2008 holding it steady at $61.3M. Clearly, Congress is not all that impressed with the activities at ONC. In an article in Government [...]
Predictions 2008: Telehealth Jumps, RHIOs Fade, Legislation Stalls & PHRs Get the Press
Posted in consumer health, EMR, Google, HIT, Microsoft, P4P, PHR, RHIO, SaaS, standards, telehealth, tagged Dossia, GE, Google, HIE, Microsoft, NHIN, Philips, PHRs, RHIO, Siemens, telehealth on January 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A common practice in the analyst community is to take a look back at what has occurred and project forward as to what we might see in the coming year. I won’t spend anytime on what has occurred as you can always drift back to previous posts. Following are the Top Ten predictions for 2008. [...]
RHIOs Looking Worse than Predicted
Posted in policy, RHIO, tagged Harvard Medical, health policy, RHIO on December 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A September post provided commentary on numbers the Health IT Transition Group released from their survey on the Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIO) market. Having surveyed roughly 20% of the RHIOs and extrapolating that data as indicative of the overall market, their findings were not that encouraging. Now it is getting downright depressing. Last week, [...]
Microsoft Joins Others to Rachet-up Privacy Campaign
Posted in HIE, Microsoft, Privacy, RHIO, Security, tagged EHR, EMR, HIE, PHR, Privacy, RHIO, Security on October 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Over on the WSJ Health blog there is a quick posting on how Microsoft joined with some 40 plus organizations including the ACLU, AIDS Action, and Gun Owners of America, to name a few in lobbying Congress, via letter, to update the nation’s privacy laws. Just as important as who is on the list are [...]
Lilly’s CEO – We Need More Data to Prevent ADEs
Posted in EHR, EMR, eRx, HIE, PHR, Privacy, RHIO, tagged ADEs, EHR, EMR, eRx, HIE, pharmaceuticals, PHR, research, RHIO on October 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday during his presentation at an event at the Cleveland Clinic, Eli Lilly’s CEO, Sidney Taurel called on the healthcare industry to more aggressively adopt HIT and allow pharmaceutical companies to leverage the data collected in these systems to help minimize adverse drug events (ADEs). Despite extensive tests on drugs prior to their release, via [...]
