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Moving to HIE 2.0

This week I had the pleasure to be the keynote speaker at Orion Health’s HIE User Conference in the beautiful state of my youth, Colorado. In preparing for this conference I was struck again by just how quickly this market continues to evolve and...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2012 6:20 PM by Chilmark Research

Filed under: Meaningful Use, HIT, HIE, Policy, Standards, ACO, consumer health, Stage 2, ads, Direct secure messaging

Limits and Lags in Healthcare Productivity

In a recent Health Affairs blog, Alex Goldsmith does a back-of-the-envelope analysis of the peculiar economics of healthcare. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment in healthcare increased by 1.149 million people from 2007-2011. He contrasts...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2012 12:46 PM by Chilmark Research

Filed under: CMS, EMR, EHR, ONC, HIT, ehr adoption, Policy, Standards, ACO, Meaningful Use Stage 2

Benchmarking Payers Adoption of Consumer Tech

Awhile back, a large health insurer (payer) commissioned Chilmark Research to do a market scan on how payers across the country were using emerging consumer technologies to engage their members. We found this project to be quite interesting and rather...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2012 1:08 PM by Chilmark Research

Filed under: Social Media, telemedicine, Policy, ACO, consumer health, Acquisition, telehealth, WellPoint, Kaiser Permanente, mHealth, Humana, Aetna, Highmark, BCBS, Cigna, gamification

Quick Poll: What will Supreme Court Rule?

This morning received notice that the Supreme Court will make its final rulings before summer recess on Thursday, June 28th. Among those rulings is the heavily politicized and closely watched decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2012 3:00 PM by Chilmark Research

Filed under: Policy, healthcare reform, ACO, PPACA, ACA, Supreme Court, Obamacare, SCOTUS

Forecast and Ramifications of Payers in the HIE Market: Part Two

(Note: This is the second of a two-part post.) Keeping it Local This is most representative of the status quo and the most realistic path forward for the vast majority of payers who typically operate at the local level. In this scenario, one or more health...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2012 10:59 AM by Chilmark Research

Filed under: EHR, HIT, HIE, Health Portals, Policy, Payers, ACO, consumer health, privacy, NaviNet, Lumeris, BCBS

Is Direct Undercutting the Viability of RHIOs?

Last week, a discussion got started on Google + by Brian Ahier about whether or not ONC’s aggressive support of Direct is undercutting many a Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO). What got this whole conversation started was an article...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2012 12:49 PM by Chilmark Research

Filed under: HIE, Policy, ACO, consumer health, Analytics, RHIO, Medicity Project Direct

Looking Back on 2011 – What A Strange Year It’s Been

It is almost becoming the norm to say that it has been another tumultuous year in the healthcare IT market. Market consolidation, pushback on timelines, growing chorus from IT departments that enough is enough against the backdrop of the political circus...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2011 12:06 PM by Chilmark Research

Filed under: EMR, EHR, SaaS, HIE, cloud computing, HealthVault, Health Portals, microsoft, Policy, Standards, PHR, ACO, consumer health, Acquisition, Analytics, Health Cloud, RHIO, telehealth, GE, mHealth, Direct Project, HIMSS'12

EHRs Deliver the Goods, or at Least the Quality

There have been a number of research studies published that question the value of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), particularly as it pertains to improving quality of care and ultimately outcomes. Chilmark has always viewed these reports with a certain...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2011 1:11 PM by Chilmark Research

Filed under: EMR, EHR, HIT, diabetes, Policy, PCMH, ACO, Quality, P4P, NEJM

HIE Market Snippets

In January, we released our HIE Market Report: Analysis & Trends which was extremely well-received. Sales have exceeded our rather optimistic projections – great for us. But what we are most proud of and honestly what keeps us going is that...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2011 7:23 PM by Chilmark Research

Filed under: SaaS, HIT, HIE, Policy, Standards, PHR, PCMH, ACO, Acquisition, RHIO, HL 7

Looking at Healthcare Through Payer Lenses: Part Two

Payers, as with the rest of the healthcare industry, have a lot on their plate right now. Healthcare reform, via the Affordable Care Act (ACA) continues its march forward despite legal and political uncertainty. Struggling to define the payer role in...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2011 7:05 PM by Chilmark Research

Filed under: Policy, Payers, PHR, HIX, PCMH, healthcare reform, AHIP, ACO, AHIP Institute, Affordable Care Act, consumer health

Looking at Healthcare Through Payer Lenses: Part One

Attending the annual health insurers confab (AHIP Institute) last week gave one some insight as to the challenges this part of the healthcare industry is facing. There were plenty of sessions on addressing data analytics for everything from population...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2011 2:28 PM by Chilmark Research

Filed under: CMS, HIT, Policy, Payers, HIX, AHIP, ACO, Affordable Care Act, consumer health, health insurance exchange

Rational Thought Infects HITECH

Couple of weeks back the HIT Policy Committee began to seriously consider what a delay of Stage Two meaningful use (MU) might look like. This push for a delay is being driven in large part by EHR vendors. The problem is one of timing. While Stage Two...

Published Thu, May 05 2011 9:03 AM by Chilmark Research

Filed under: Meaningful Use, EMR, EHR, Policy, ACO, HITECH Act

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