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Cloud Computing, Security & Privacy Considerations

Posted in EMR, HIE, Health Cloud, tagged , , , , on December 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »

While conducting research for the long overdue and nearly completed report on Personal Health Clouds (Dossia, Google Health and HealthVault) came across a recently published report by the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) addressing cloud computing security.  Though quite long (over 120 pages) the report provides a very comprehensive overview of cloud computing, [...]

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Harvard Conference on Internet’s Future

Posted in Google, Microsoft, Privacy, Security, policy, tagged , , , , on May 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I got religion. At least religion that part of the savior to today’s, and more importantly, tomorrow’s healthcare crisis lies on the Internet. With the abysmal adoption of IT to date within the healthcare sector, I am a strong believer that this industry will simply leap-frog the traditional, three-tiered IT architectural model and move directly [...]

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NEWS FLASH: Google Opens Kimono Offering Health Beta

Posted in Google, PHR, PHS, SaaS, consumer health, tagged , , , on January 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Today, Google opened the doors to a Beta version of its consumer health site.  Based on that landing page, quite clear that unlike Microsoft, Google will offer a full fledged Personal Health Record (PHR) for the consumer.  In addition to the base PHR functionality they will be providing, Google Health Beta will also offer a [...]

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B2C Dead in PHR Market?

Posted in PHR, consumer health, tagged , , , , on January 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »

The Personal Health Record (PHR) market is evolving rapidly undergoing a tectonic shift as the majority of PHR vendors shift their focus from Business to Consumer (B2C) sales & marketing model to Business to Business (B2B) model. This is particularly true for those who offer a hosted, web-based (SaaS) PHR solution. In a series of [...]

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Ho Hum, Google Tries to Keep the Embers Glowing

Posted in Google, Microsoft, PHR, tagged , , , on October 18, 2007 | 3 Comments »

Google’s new leader of the Health Group, Marissa Mayer gave a very mundane presentation yesterday at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco and from various reports, it sounds like it was a complete bomb. Granted, Marissa only had ten minutes to work with but you would think that in that time she could provide [...]

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Indivo Health: Further Details on Dossia Agreement

Posted in CCR, EHR, PHP, PHR, Privacy, RHIO, SaaS, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Had the opportunity last week to get an update from Will Crawford and Ken Mandl of the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program (CHIP), a joint collaboration of Harvard Medical and MIT. The objective was to learn more about the recent agreement between CHIP and Dossia, whereby Dossia will adopt Indivo as the Personal Health Record (PHR) [...]

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Digging Into Microsoft’s HealthVault: Part Two (b) – The Experience

Posted in EHR, EMR, PHR, Privacy, Security, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 15, 2007 | 5 Comments »

Have you ever come home from a strenuous work-out famished and can find nothing in the cupboards or the refrigerator to satisfy your cravings? If so, then you have some idea of what I experienced on HealthVault. Getting into HealthVault was a work-out. It all began with the need to establish a Microsoft Windows Live [...]

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Digging Into Microsoft’s HealthVault: Part Two (a) – The Platform

Posted in EHR, EMR, PHR, Privacy, SaaS, Security, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 12, 2007 | 8 Comments »

I came into this review with very high hopes, hopes that Microsoft, with its vast resources and market clout, would make a major splash in the rapidly evolving consumer health IT (HIT) market. I was thinking BIG. Big grand schemes, a monster of a Personal Health Record (PHR) solution that would provide all a consumer [...]

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Microsoft 1, Google 0

Posted in EHR, EMR, PHR, Privacy, Security, tagged , , , , on October 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Microsoft has taken an early lead over Google with the launch of HealthVault yesterday. With both companies in a pitched battle to gain the upper hand in the consumer healthcare market, it is clear that Microsoft has won Round One. But is it really fair to compare these two in the consumer healthcare market? Yes [...]

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athenahealth Makes a Splash

Posted in EHR, EMR, P4P, SaaS, tagged , , , , , on September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

On Sept 20th, athenahealth (ATHN) went public on the NASDAQ becoming the most successful IPO to date in 2007. Coming out at $18/share, the share price soared to over $38/share, a 115% gain. Since then, the price has settled down (probably some profit taking by early purchasers) and is now trading at ~$33/share. Still a [...]

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