by John Moore | November 11, 2019
In the weekly roll-out of yet another healthcare IT conference, I recently attended the Allscripts Customer Experience (ACE) conference in Dallas TX. This is a far smaller, more intimate affair than that of either Epic or Cerner, with roughly 500 customers in attendance representing Allscripts' acute care base (Sunrise and
by John Moore | October 30, 2019
Six thousand movers and shakers in healthcare came together in Las Vegas for HLTH, a conference in its second year that has obviously attracted quite a following. The best characterization of this event is a mini JP Morgan (the uber-large annual event held in January) devoted exclusively to digital health.
by Alex Lennox-Miller | October 24, 2019
This past week, Paul Nardone and I attended the HIMSS Connected Health Conference. At the end of the week, we were largely wondering, who was this conference for? Was it targeting providers and healthcare systems looking for solutions? Vendors and start-ups looking to enter the market or grow their business?
by Jody Ranck | October 03, 2019
As the hype cycle for AI continues it is going to be increasingly important for users to ask more questions about the limitations of these systems as well as ask what types of problems will machine learning models such as Deep Learning be best suited. The market is filled with
by John Moore | September 26, 2019
This week, Brian Murphy and I had the opportunity to attend the InterSystems Global Summit, whose theme was Healthcare Unbounded. The event was very well attended with a packed audience for first day keynotes and many sessions were standing room only. We heard that InterSystems' Summit had over 700
by Brian Murphy | September 18, 2019
After attending Health Catalyst's Health Analytics Summit (HAS19) last week, I must face the reality that user group meetings give me both vertigo and hope. Vertigo because it turns out I know a lot less about healthcare than the accumulated knowledge and wisdom of my fellow conferees. Hope because, despite the scale
by Chilmark Team | September 05, 2019
Last week, Chilmark Research attended the Epic Systems 2019 Users Group Meeting (UGM) in Verona, Wisconsin. On Epic’s 40th anniversary, we received a full history of the company’s growth, a glimpse into where it's headed, and how it sees the future of healthcare and health IT evolving. As always, it
by Jody Ranck | July 23, 2019
Precision medicine (PM) is of growing importance in healthcare and was the focus of a major push by the Obama Administration through the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) launched in 2015. Chilmark uses Ferryman and Pitcain’s definition of precision medicine as the “effort to collect, integrate, and analyze multiple sources of genetic
