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I'm in Los Angeles at the California Endowment attending the HIMSS Southern California Chapter Annual Healthcare IT Conference today . I was invited to speak on the topic of social media this afternoon, so I'm grateful to be here. The theme of the conference is around Healthcare Consumerism and the Twitter hashtag is #HITCon13 . The opening keynote was delivered by Kenneth W. Kizer, MD, MPH, Director of the UC Davis Institute for Population Health Improvement (IPHI). He described some innovative programs like the California Health eQuality (CHeQ) Program, a California HIE program. There...

Patients' complaints about doctors are finally being taken seriously, as poor communication is increasingly understood to be at the root of many of health care’s failures—and a leading culprit in rising costs. Research shows that when doctors don...

Last week was yet another HIMSS, this time in the Big Easy – one of my favorite cities, despite the unfortunate decay occurring on Bourbon St. As with the many HIMSS I have attended before, this is the seminal event … Continue reading →

This morning on the second day of the 2013 HIMSS conference, Dr. Eric Topol gave an entertaining, engaging keynote about the future of medicine and the emergence of digital health. He came on stage wearing his Walking Gallery jacket painted by Regina Holliday . We saw a surge of tweets from the medical community praising Regina for her patient advocacy efforts through her growing Walking Gallery. Eric entertained the audience with some photos challenging the notion of "what is a digital native?" It seems that unless you started using a smartphone when you were in the womb, you are probably...

We Americans are on a very terrifying path, health-wise, based on the latest obesity projections from RWJF. Medical “innovations” around the obesity epidemic are unsettling, to say the least. Most recently, Dean Kamen (of Segway fame) filed a patent for...

As Chilmark has grown, so has our areas of research which is best represented in the following four research notes that our analysts put together for Chilmark Advisory Service (CAS) clients. The following four abstracts provide you perspective on some...

In the blink of an eye, a New Year has appeared and with it the need to look into our crystal ball (or is it a magic 8 ball) to make our annual predictions for the healthcare IT sector. Personally, … Continue reading →

Innovation almost by rule drives cost down in other industries, but not so much in healthcare. “Healthcare is unique in that every added feature increases the cost,” Dr. Diego Miralles, head of Janssen Healthcare Innovation, part of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, said last week during a live TEDMED webcast. One exception to [...] Read More...