by Jody Ranck | March 02, 2021

Technologies Empowering Community Engagement

How are new solutions helping HCOs address SDoH in the community? Leading solutions vendors share lessons learned from clients Join us for a discussion about different approaches to integrating SDoH into the care delivery workflow, emerging best practices, and considerations when planning your own implementation strategy. Our expert panelists: Jody

by John Moore | January 21, 2021

Optum’s Acquisition of Change Healthcare

In our latest Hot Take, Founder and Managing Director John Moore Jr. sits with us to share his thoughts on what this recent mega-merger means for each of the companies as well as what it portends for the industry. Transcript (mostly generated by AI - please excuse typos): [00:00:00] Hello,

by Jody Ranck | December 20, 2020

Webinar – Care Models Engaging Community Resources

How can new IT solutions and care models integrate community resources into care? Increasingly, providers and payers seek to address social determinants of health (SDoH) in their patient populations to lower utilization costs as value-based care becomes more prevalent. To do so, the providers and payers must engage with organizations

by Chilmark Team | December 18, 2020

Looking to the Future – 2021 Predictions

Unlike past years when we have written a post evaluating how well our predictions for that year held up, let’s just say the COVID pandemic threw a monkey wrench into everything and move on.  That being said, before I started pulling these predictions for 2021 together with the Chilmark Research

by John Moore | December 11, 2020

Building the Care Delivery Chain

Collective Medical got an eye-popping $650M in sale to PointClickCare - was it worth it? This week we learned that Collective Medical will be acquired by Canadian-based PointClickCare for a whopping $650M. That is a phenomenal multiple to Collective Medical’s estimated annual revenue of about $45M. Is it an unreasonable

by Chilmark Team | December 01, 2020

athenahealth: Stepping Out

John Moore, Alex Lennox-Miller, Jody Ranck, Brian Murphy Roughly a year ago, athenahealth held its first analyst event. This event came on the heels of athenahealth’s protracted battle with an activist investor that ultimately took the company private and led to the exit of their flamboyant CEO, Jonathan Bush. That first

by Alex Lennox-Miller | October 13, 2020

Salesforce Takes Aim at EHRs

Salesforce is betting EHRs cannot improve quickly enough to meet user-experience needs of industry. The Salesforce Healthcare and Life Sciences summit was a shot across the bow for EHRs. There was no mistaking the content of the presentations, the message of their tools and deployments, or the explicit questions focused

by John Moore | September 02, 2020

Epic UGM 2020: COVID Leads Development

On August 25th, as I was undergoing a procedure at a local hospital, I tuned in to Epic’s virtual UGM keynote session to hear the latest and greatest from one of the leading health IT vendors in the market. While very informative, the event was stale. With plenty of time