The Google Health Strategy
Chilmark Research is furiously working on its next report that will take an in-depth look at the three major platform plays, Dossia, Google Health and Microsoft’s HealthVault. Shaping up to be an...
View ArticlePaaS Challenges for HIE Vendors
Yesterday’s post took a look at the future for the Health Information Exchange (HIE) market putting forth the projection that successful HIEs will move towards a platform as a service (PaaS) cloud...
View ArticleCloud Computing, Security & Privacy Considerations
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...
View ArticleThe Migration to Modular HIT Apps
Been a lot of talk over the last year or so regarding the move to smaller, more modular, substitutable apps (think iPhone) to address healthcare IT sector needs, particularly for providers. This...
View ArticleAnother Year, Another HIMSS
Coming back from HIMSS and really scratching my head trying to think of what incredible new and novel thing(s) did I see, hear about or experience at the conference. Nothing stood out. Here it is...
View ArticleWhere’s the Beef?
Awhile back, Chilmark received a briefing from Medicity about their forthcoming iNexx platform. We liked what we saw. iNexx fit our model of where the HIE and more broadly, the HIT market is headed,...
View ArticleSeattle Bound
Tomorrow, I’ll be heading to Seattle to attend Microsoft’s annual Connected Health event. Last year’s event provided some useful insight’s into Microsoft’s international intentions which were most...
View ArticleAssessment: Ingenix Makes HIE Move Acquiring Axolotl
Last week, Ingenix announced that it would be acquiring Axolotl. Probably no one was happier than the folks at Gilat Satellite Networks who had invested $4.5M in Axolotl over ten years ago, had...
View ArticleTrickle Down Health or Health 2.0 Impressions
Another year, another Health 2.0 under the belt. This being the fourth time attending it is interesting to see how this event and its participants have evolved. Like many things in life, some things at...
View ArticleOrion Health Aspires to PaaS
The interoperability problems that plague healthcare are compounded by the paucity of developer options for modern software development. Software as a Service (SaaS) models are increasingly commonplace...
View ArticlePlatform-as-a-Service: Old Idea but New to Healthcare
Accelerate the Industry Forward Technology companies often open up their products to create an ecosystem for third party developers. This concept extends back to original desktop operating systems to...
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