Little over a month ago, IBM and WellPoint announced an agreement wherein WellPoint will deploy IBM’s latest and greatest super computer and artificial intelligence mega-mind Watson. Watson’s claim to fame was its ability to beat the human Jeopardy champions much like Big Blue beat reigning chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. Since that Jeopardy match, IBM [...]
Posts Tagged ‘WellPoint’
Dr. Watson I Presume
Posted in ACO, Analytics, Cloud Computing, Health Cloud, HIT, telemedicine, tagged IBM, Watson, WellPoint on October 18, 2011 | 4 Comments »
2008, What was Hot, What was Not
Posted in consumer health, Dossia, EMR, Google, Google Health, HL 7, Microsoft, PHR, PHS, tagged Cerner, eClinicalWorks, Oracle, Wal-Mart, Walgreens, WellPoint, Zagat, Zagats on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the nice things about all the writing done over the past year is that one can go back, apply some analytics and see exactly what topics/posts were popular over the past year. So, drumroll please… Following are the Top Ten Posts at Chilmark Research for 2008 with brief commentary: 10) Zagat Physician Rating [...]
Humana Breaks the Mold
Posted in consumer health, tagged Aetna, BCBS, Cigna, Freewheeling, Humana, Humana Innovations, payers, WellPoint on December 10, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Slowly getting the hang of Twitter and while cruising around the TwitterSphere yesterday looking for updates from the WHIT’08 conference in DC came across a guy providing live tweets from the event. Looking more closely at his profile, it turns out he works in a “skunk-like” innovations group at Humana, called Humana Innovations. Like a [...]
CIGNA Playing Catch-up Introduces New Site
Posted in consumer health, PHR, tagged Aetna, Cigna, Healthwise, WellPoint on October 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
CIGNA has appeared asleep at the wheel for sometime now as competitors Wellpoint and the more aggressive Aetna look to engage the end consumer. Not any more. Today’s Washington Post had a brief article on CIGNA’s introduction of the new website, itstimetofeelbetter. Along with the new website, which has a wide ranging and somewhat confusing [...]
Sec. Leavitt, CIGNA, WellPoint – The Finishing Touches to WHCC 2008
Posted in consumer health, EHR, EMR, PHR, policy, RHIO, Security, tagged CCHIT, Cigna, CMS, HHS, Leavitt, WellPoint on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
WHCC 2008 just wrapped up with a final keynote from Secretary Leavitt. Leavitt’s keynote was a progress report on the four cornerstones that have driven HHS under his leadership. Cornerstone One: Standard Quality Measures There has been a lot of quality metrics established, but agreement on the standards by which these will be measured is [...]
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 [...]
Aetna Keeps Pushing the Envelope
Posted in consumer health, Dossia, PHR, PHS, Privacy, tagged Aetna, Healthline, PHR, PHS, SmartSource, UnitedHealth, WellPoint on March 12, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Aetna is pretty aggressive on the personal healthcare front. First they buy ActiveHealth Management. Granted, ActiveHealth’s main target is not the consumer (disease management is their core competency), but they did introduce an online PHR early last year. Secondly, Aetna has partnered with all the major personal health systems (PHS) plays which include Dossia, Google [...]
Zagat Physician Rating Goes Live
Posted in consumer health, tagged physician rankings, WellPoint, Zagats on January 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Couple of days ago, WellPoint announced that it had released the Zagat physician rating capabilities to a limited subset of its members, specifically, those enrolled in a consumer-driven health plan called Blue Lumenos in Los Angeles, Cincinnati and Dayton OH, and the state of Connecticut. WellPoint will roll-out the Zagat rating service to the rest [...]
