Oct 26, 2009 | Engagement, Health Cloud, Uncategorized
Last Friday had the chance to meet up with the folks at Dossia, the personal health platform (PHP) formed by a consortium of employers. Purpose of the meeting was to get a deep dive update on Dossia and learn more about what they have done in the last year or so since...
Oct 1, 2009 | Care Management, CMS, consumer health, Engagement, HealthVault, Interoperability, Policy, Privacy, Security, Uncategorized
Chilmark has not been a big fan of the National Health Information Network (NHIN) concept. It was, and in large part still is, a top heavy federal government effort to create a nationwide infrastructure to facilitate the exchange of clinical information. A high, lofty...
Apr 2, 2009 | Connected Health, consumer health, Health Cloud, HealthVault, telemedicine, Uncategorized
GE and Intel today jointly announced a partnership to address the healthcare telemedicine market, which they peg at $3B today, and more than doubling to $7.7B by 2012. Companies agreed to pool $250M for R&D over the next five years. Also, GE will become the...
Mar 26, 2009 | Care Management, consumer health, Engagement, Health Cloud, HealthVault, Uncategorized
The latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is a good one. First, is but another paper, this one authored by many including our new head of ONC, Professor David Blumenthal, regarding the abysmal adoption of EMRs At least it appears that Blumenthal...
Mar 16, 2009 | consumer health, Engagement, Uncategorized
Results are in from the Navigenics test and my sometime absent mindedness is unlikely to be caused from Alzheimer’s as I am at a very low risk of this disease, at least according to my genetic make-up. Boy, do I feel better now. At the beginning of 2009, I...
