Blog Profile / Chilmark Research
| URL : | http://chilmarkresearch.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Medical / Healthcare IT | |
| Posts on Regator: | 183 | |
| Posts / Week: | 1.1 | |
| Archived Since: | April 6, 2010 | |
Blog Post Archive
Defining a Maturity Model for HIEs
Before entering the convoluted healthcare IT sector, I had worked in the manufacturing sector both as an IT analyst and in corporate strategy for Europe’s second largest enterprise software company. In those many years I learn quite a bit about not only how to effectively deploy large enterprise software systems (SAP, PeopleSoft, i2, PTC, SSA, [...]
HIE Report is Released
The long awaited, dare I say anticipated HIE Market Report is now complete and ready for purchase. This report, arguably the most comprehensive report yet published on this rapidly evolving market (116pgs, 21 vendors profiled, 0ver 25 tables and figures) will provide the reader with a detailed portrait of today’s HIE Market, its leading vendors, [...]
Definition of HIE: What’s Yours?
Trying something new here – soliciting your collective input, the proverbial wisdom of the crowd. As you may have read in yesterday’s post, Chilmark is quickly approaching publication of the Health Information Exchange (HIE) report. One of the last tasks is final editing/polishing of report. Am now in the process of creating a definition for [...]
Snippet from Forthcoming HIE Report
OK, I admit it, I have been negligent. Since that brief holiday greetings post a couple of weeks back, I have not written a single thing for this site. Even before that post, my writing, or at least frequency thereof, had fallen precipitously. It is not that there has been nothing to write about – far from [...]
Season’s Greetings from the Western Office
Hard to believe that we are on the final stretch of 2010 and in little more than a week we will be ushering in the New Year. But before this year comes to a close and we reflect on what has passed and what is to come, we at Chilmark Research want to wish all [...]
NaviNet Acquires Prematics: a Testament to the Ubiquity of Smartphones in the Exam Room
Last week, NaviNet announced its acquisition of Prematics, a company founded a few short years ago targeting the market for mHealth provider solutions. While there are significant synergies and overlap between the two companies’ product offerings, NaviNet’s main driver with this acquisition was to extend itself beyond the desktop and into to the exam room [...]
Analysis: Aetna Jumps into HIE Market Acquiring Medicity
First it was United Health Group’s (UHG) Ingenix Division’s acquisition of leading HIE vendor (and top competitor to Medicity) Axolotl. Then this morning Aetna counters by acquiring Medicity. In just a few short months these two payers have completely changed the landscape of the HIE market by acquiring the two leading HIE vendors in the [...]
Another HUGE Acquisition in HIE Market
Just as we are trying to put the final touches to the forthcoming HIE Market Report, another major HIE vendor gets acquired and again it is a very big fish swallowing a small and very pricey little fish. Geez, they are making our life difficult here at Chilmark. This morning, Aetna announced that it will [...]
mHealth in the Enterprise Set to Explode
The rapid adoption of smartphones and now touch-screen tablets (e.g., iPad) by clinicians will trigger enormous growth in the use of mHealth Apps within healthcare enterprises, with the market for mHealth in the enterprise projected to reach $1.7B by end of year 2014. Similar to the hockey stick growth for mobile shown in the slide [...]
State of the Web & Mobile Device Impact
Yesterday, Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker gave her annual presentation on the State of the Web 2010. As always, she has done her homework with some excellent stats presented that draw some provokative conclusions. While this presentation looks at the broader market, it is not too hard to start connecting the dots and apply some [...]
Smashing Myths & Assumptions: PHR for Urban Diabetes Care
There remains an unhealthy level of skepticism in the market as to whether or not consumers will use a personal health record (PHR). While a certain level of skepticism is healthy in any market, the level to which it is laid towards PHRs is unwarranted and likely more a function of ignorance then malicious intent. [...]
mHealth: Is it a Market?
Been attending the mHealth Summit for the last 3 days and an over-arching theme has been: mHealth is unlikely to ever become a market in its own right. Backing up this claim have been the countless projects/products being presented at this event with very few having a model that is scalable across a broad population [...]
What do WebMD’s Q3 Numbers Tell Us?
Yesterday, the big 800lb gorilla in the PHR market, WebMD announced 3rd quarter earnings that were quite mixed. While its public portal business continues to see strong growth in uniques (now over 83M visitors/month) and advertising revenues that grew 26%, its private portal business continues to produce lackluster results, with flat revenue and holding steady [...]
Get Out & Vote
One would have to be a hermit, living in a cave without a radio, TV, newspaper subscription, etc., to not know that today is election day. The barrage of ads and rhetoric has been unprecedented with some estimating that up to $8B was spent on campaigns this year and this was only a mid-term election. [...]
SureScripts, A Defacto NHIN
Yesterday in New Orleans, SureScripts announced a new line of business: Clinical Interoperability. Leveraging their existing ePrescribing solution platform, currently serving over 200K physicians nationwide, and combining it with the...Show More Summary
TeleHealth Still Waiting…
Last week’s Connected Health Symposium was once again an event about a sector just waiting to break-out of perpetual pilot stage. This was my 4th Connected for Health Symposium (it holds a special place in my heart as this was the very first HIT-related conference I ever attended) but in each and everyone, a dominant, [...]
Let the Data Flow: Part Two
Moving from an event focusing on HIE/REC initiatives by various States, the next two events, HealthCampSF and Health 2.0, took data liquidity to new heights. Having the CTO of HHS, Todd Park, kick things off at HealthCamp by channeling Oprah and discussing/promoting the Clinical Health Data Initiative (CDHI) as well as the Blue Button sure [...]
Letting the Data Flow, Part One
Making clinical data liquid permeated a series of events I attended last week during Health Innovation Week in San Francisco. Monday and Tuesday found me at the HIE/REC conference. Wednesday was HealthCamp at Kaiser-Permanente’s Garfield Research Center (KP was extremely gracious in hosting this event and the opportunity to get a tour of the facilities [...]
Don’t Rule-out the Mobile Browser
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Henry J. Feldman, M.D., instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). Dr. Feldman also serves as Chief Information Architect in addition to practicing as a hospitalist at BIDMC. Dr. Feldman discussed BIDMC’s platform-agnostic mobile strategy, whereby clinicians access all [...]
On the PHR Front…
Activity is really heating up here at Chilmark Research. But all that activity is making it difficult to follow all of the changes that are taking place in the market. Let me correct that, not so hard to follow, extremely hard to find the time to write about within the context of these posts. Thus, [...]