by John Moore | January 21, 2022
Once-Vaunted Solution Never Grew to Expectations The health IT market is littered with the bones of many a large company trying to break into this challenging arena. These bones are turning to dust: McKesson, dust; GE Healthcare, dust; Microsoft’s initial foray, dust; Google’s first attempt, dust. And now, IBM Watson ...
by Jody Ranck | January 18, 2022
3 Ways Organizations Can Move Towards Health Equity Key Takeaways Growing interest in health equity is driving the creation of Chief Health Equity Officers and interest in new business practices utilizing SDoH and AI. Data analytics can be both a source of bias that creates health inequities, as well as ...
by Alex Lennox-Miller | January 10, 2022
Discovering the Active Patient with Dr. Danny Sands The 2021 update of the Press-Ganey Consumer Experience Trends in Healthcare report makes it clear how badly patient relationship IT is missing the bus. Some of the findings weren’t exactly newsworthy. The digital consumer experience becoming a make-or-break element of patient preference ...
by John Moore | January 06, 2022
The Future of Clinician-Centric Innovation Much has been written about this $28.3 billion monster acquisition. Most articles focused on what this means for Oracle and Cerner, yet little has been said as to what this may mean to the broader healthcare IT sector. In my musings below, I hope to ...
by Jody Ranck | December 22, 2021
A Fireside Chat featuring Ed Bukstel and Jody Ranck Key Takeaways The ICO (initial coin offering) bubble burst, failing to provide a funding mechanism for blockchain healthcare companies. However, several blockchain healthcare companies have survived and continue to build out their solution offerings. Government (Health and Human Services) has adopted ...
by Chilmark Team |
Here we go again; another year, another prediction post. The Chilmark team has reviewed countless other predictions for 2022 and found most quite lacking – usually just stating the obvious, e.g., “…cybersecurity will be critical in 2022.” And as I noted in our customary review of last year’s predictions, we ...
by Jody Ranck | December 16, 2021
Key Takeaways The pandemic offered an opportunity for a number of AI in Operations (AI4Ops) vendors to demonstrate a measurable ROI during the crisis. While much of the attention in health IT over the past year has focused on the rise of virtual care, we found that vendors in the ...
by John Moore | December 15, 2021
Conservative Predictions Result in More Hits than Misses By: John Moore & the Chilmark Research Team Looking back at our end-of-year predictions for 2021, I am not particularly enthused. Sure, we did a great job foretelling the future last December, with a batting average of ~ 0.620. But I have ...
by Jody Ranck | December 07, 2021
How Executives Can Foster Change Key Takeaways The rapid adoption of virtual care, AI in operations, and chatbots during the COVID-19 pandemic is adding complexity to digital transformation efforts. Healthcare organizations will need deeper, proactive strategies to avoid unnecessary failures. When organizations respond to a crisis, they typically lack the ...
by John Moore | November 29, 2021
Looking Ahead: RWD/RWE Opportunities Loom Large Introduction Recent actions by the FDA and the global response to COVID have accelerated interest in real-world data (RWD) and real-world evidence (RWE). Often for use in clinical trial design and execution via distributed clinical trials, this de-identified patient data is quickly becoming an ...
by Alex Lennox-Miller | November 23, 2021
Diverging Strategies Emerge to Tackle Satisfaction, Experience, and Engagement Despite being one of the central pillars of the IHI Triple Aim, the patient experience has remained difficult to effectively manage. It’s hard to know which of the variety of available measurements are tracking what a healthcare provider truly wants to ...
by Jody Ranck | November 16, 2021
Introduction Recently the FDA, Health Canada, and the United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), released their “Guiding Principles for Good Machine Learning Practice” to help the AI/ML industry navigate both patient safety and continuing innovation in new devices and AI/ML algorithms. These principles are derived from those ...
by Alex Lennox-Miller | October 18, 2021
If you’d asked almost anyone in the healthcare IT industry about telehealth in mid-2020, their response would have been full of enthusiasm about finally unleashing all the promise telehealth had been teasing us with for years. With appointment volumes nearing 50% in some cases, the universal refrain was that now ...
by John Moore | October 01, 2021
The longitudinal patient record – not to be confused with a longitudinal care plan – is often discussed as a feature of an evolved healthcare IT landscape. It is also viewed as essential in the shift to value-based care, enabling more effective population health management and an essential component of ...
by Jody Ranck | September 27, 2021
Examining recent trends in SDoH, Privacy, and AI Key Takeaways Proposed changes to HIPAA (ONC PDF) that would make sharing data with social services organizations easier are raising privacy concerns. As initiatives such as the Gravity Project continue to build standards for SDoH, the privacy concerns of advocates will likely ...
by John Moore | September 17, 2021
Thoughts on the Google Health Dissolution and Cerner's New CEO For me, vacation is a time to get away – to completely disconnect and go off-the-grid. This year, that involved a trip to my home state of Colorado and backpacking into the wilderness. What a release – to simply be ...
by Jody Ranck | August 30, 2021
Key Takeaways The ONC is advancing the creation of standards for social determinants of health (SDoH) data as a priority in their efforts to improve outcomes and population health. USCDI (United States Core Date for Interoperability) version 2 guidance was recently released and is including SDoH, gender identity and sexual ...
by Alex Lennox-Miller | August 16, 2021
As soon as the planes landed and the floor started buzzing at HIMSS'21, there were questions about the conference itself, its future, and what had been learned about healthcare and HIT since last March. There were noticeably fewer people and obvious gaps on the show floor; throughout the week, vendors ...
by John Moore | August 02, 2021
Next week is HIMSS’21, which will be live and in-person in COVID hotspot Las Vegas. The HIMSS organization must be triple crossing its fingers now, hoping all will go as well as can be expected. It won’t be easy. As I write this, I think back to HIMSS’20 and how ...
by Jody Ranck | July 19, 2021
Key Takeaways An evaluation of Epic’s Sepsis Model revealed its poor performance and sheds light on the need for peer review of algorithms that is lacking in proprietary models. Adoption of new technologies can be enhanced through transparency and peer review that confirms the accuracy and solid performance of models ...
