In an interesting twist, Cleveland Clinic and Microsoft’s HealthVault Grp announced a partnership this morning to address chronic disease management. The interesting twist is that Cleveland Clinic was the showcase beta customer for Google Health, which was announced by Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt earlier this year at HIMSS. Like their counterpart in Boston, Beth Israel [...]
Posts Tagged ‘telehealth’
Cleveland Clinic & HealthVault Unite
Posted in consumer health, Google, Microsoft, PHR, tagged biometric, chronic care, Cleveland Clinic, Connection Center, Dossia, EMR, HealthVault, MyChart, telehealth on November 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »
AT&T, Microsoft and Covisnt Partner on Data Exchange
Posted in EMR, Microsoft, PHR, tagged AT&T, Covisint, health information exchange, HIE, telehealth on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This just in, Microsoft’s HealthVault announced a partnership with AT&T and Covisint to enable healthcare data exchange across a highly distributed network. While I have not had a chance to really dig into this announcement, it does appear, at least on the surface, to be quite an interesting partnership. One of the most interesting aspects [...]
Telehealth in US has Long Way to Go
Posted in consumer health, telehealth, telemedicine, tagged Connected for Health, Philips Medical, telehealth on April 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Philips finally released its long awaited study on the adoption of telehealth technologies among the nation’s some 976 home healthcare agencies. Initial results of his study were released last fall at the Connected for Health conference and I have been patiently waiting ever since to see the final report. So to give you a preview [...]
Enough About the Gorillas, How About a Lemur
Posted in consumer health, Google, Microsoft, PHR, telehealth, tagged Google, HIMSS, Microsoft, speech pathology, telehealth, TinyEye on March 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Plenty has been written, both here and elsewhere about the two 800-pound gorillas, Google and Microsoft’s, respective plays in the consumer healthcare sector. Yes, what they are doing is extremely important to this industry and will change the healthcare industry in ways we have yet to imagine, but let’s giving this story some breathing room, [...]
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. [...]
Philips Continues Buying Spree
Posted in consumer health, telehealth, telemedicine, Uncategorized, tagged acquisition, Boston Scientific, GE, Philips, Respironics, Siemens healthcare, telehealth on December 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Philips Electronics announced on Friday that it will acquire Respironics for $66/share or about $5.13 billion, a 24% premium. This is the third and largest healthcare-centric acquisition that Philips has made in December. The first was Emergin, a small company (~100 employees, estimated $18 million in 2007 sales) and provider of medical alarming systems [...]
Telemed Delivering for California Diabetics
Posted in consumer health, telemedicine, tagged diabetes, retinopathy, telehealth, telemedicine on December 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This week, the California Healthcare Foundation (CHCF) announced that they were expanding a a pilot diabetes monitoring program, nearly quadrupling the number of clinics from the initial 12 to 42. The purpose of the program was to perform retinal screening fro diabetic retinopathy, which often results in blindness. In the pilot, which took place in [...]
Continua Alliance Features PHRs
Posted in EHR, EMR, health portals, Microsoft, PHP, PHR, Privacy, telehealth, tagged Continua Alliance, EMR, Microsoft, PHP, PHR, telehealth on December 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »
While doing some research, came across this feature article in the telehealth/med device alliance, Continua’s monthly newsletter. The article, written by arguably one of the most prolific, hyperactive and knowledgeable CIO’s in the healthcare sector, John Halamka, who also happens to be a professor at Harvard Med, provides a good introductory overview of the personal [...]
Medicare Lays Out P4P Plans
Posted in P4P, policy, telehealth, tagged Medicare, P4P, telehealth on November 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, Medicare released its 104 page proposal for moving to a partial pay for performance (P4P) model. The Wall Street Journal Health Blog has a direct link to the proposal in their posting. As the WSJ points out, what is unique here is that Medicare is proposing to withhold a certain percentage of reimbursement across [...]
EMR Vendors Push CCD for Interoperability
Posted in CCD, EHR, EMR, HL 7, PHR, policy, telehealth, tagged CCD, CCHIT, HIMSS, PHR, standards, telehealth on November 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Vendors Association EHRVA announced the availability of a “Quickstart Guide for CCD Standard.” The guide is structured to assist the multitude of electronic medical record (EMR) vendors, both large and small, in how to adopt the recently released (January 2007) Continuity of Care Document (CCD) standard in their [...]
