Mar 9, 2009 | HealthVault, Uncategorized
Today, IBM announced that it has signed-on eHealth Initiative (eHI) CEO, Janet Marchibroda as their new chief healthcare officer. A somewhat odd title as she is not a doctor, but that is really not the issue here. To date, IBM has been somewhat missing from action in...
Feb 20, 2009 | consumer health, Uncategorized
Last week, Microsoft invited me to attend the ePharma conference and assist them with moderating dinner discussion with Pharma executives. While I did report on the ePharma event, have not had much time to talk about the dinner. A little thing called the Stimulus...
Feb 5, 2009 | Connected Health, consumer health, HealthVault, Uncategorized
Though they first demonstrated the biometric measurement and store capabilities of Google Health/IBM at the Connected for Health Summit last October, today they formally announced this capability. Why the wait, not sure. Maybe they were just waiting for Continua...
Jan 26, 2009 | Care Management, Policy, Privacy, standards, Uncategorized
Just finished reading/scanning HR 1, the House Stimulus bill focusing on the HIT section, to which some $20B greenbacks will flow. This Bill just went just the Appropriations Committee and will likely pass the full house later this week. The HITECH Act (HIT for...
Jan 12, 2009 | consumer health, Engagement, health portals, HealthVault, Uncategorized
Last Friday, had the opportunity to present to MITRE and their Healthcare Transformation group. This MITRE group is responsible for developing LAIKA, the platform used by CCHIT to validate EMR solutions for certification. Extremely bright group of engineers with...
