by Alex Lennox-Miller | May 08, 2019
While there is no single complete definition of ‘primary care’ in the United States, most of the various definitions agree that primary care is first contact care covering a broad list of diagnosis, treatment, and professional roles. It’s focused on an individual relationship between a patient and a provider, where ...
by Robert Tholemeier | April 30, 2019
Three years ago, our report Making Healthcare Affordable: Implementing True Continuous Costing explored the need for, and benefits of, implementing True Continuous Costing (TCC). TCC is an analytics approach to measuring a provider’s costs of providing care for each patient encounter using the data healthcare providers already have. Since then ...
by John Moore | April 22, 2019
When I started Chilmark Research a dozen years ago, the big transformation that was going to rock the healthcare boat was Personal Health Records (PHRs). There was a tremendous amount of talk about patient empowerment, the ability to track one’s own health or health of a loved one. I even ...
by Alex Lennox-Miller | April 12, 2019
This past week, clinicians, researchers, administrators, and entrepreneurs came together for the 2019 World Medical Innovation Forum in Boston hosted by Partners HealthCare Innovation. The focus was the present and future of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. A great deal of the value of AI in clinical use remains in the ...
by Hannah Ehnle | April 09, 2019
On March 27, 2019, Chilmark hosted the first in a series of Healthcare Meetups in Boston. Chilmark Analyst Alex Lennox-Miller presented and led a discussion about new front door to care strategies with local leaders Keith Figlioli (LRV Health), Dr. Danny Sands (Society for Participatory Medicine, BIDMC) and Ken Cahill (SilverCloud Health). We heard about broader transformations ...
by John Moore | April 08, 2019
On March 18th, Kaiser Health News (KHN) and Fortune published https://khn.org/news/death-by-a-thousand-clicks/, a deep expose into all that has gone wrong with the adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) across the physician landscape in the U.S. The article was well researched – it is a good piece of journalism. But are ...
by Brian Murphy | April 05, 2019
In this webinar, Chilmark's Research Director and lead report author Brian Murphy presented key findings from our latest report, 2019 Healthcare Provider Analytics Market Trends, outlined the potential impact of recent proposed rulemaking from ONC and CMS, and answered questions from the audience. Key topics addressed: Recent shifts in analytics ...
by Alex Lennox-Miller | March 20, 2019
Our soon-to-be-released report, The Evolving Front Door to Care, reviews some of the changing ways that patients are entering and engaging with the primary care system. It looks at how Retail Health & Urgent Care, Telehealth, Virtual & Remote Care Platforms, and AI chat tools including Virtual Assistants, Symptom Checkers, ...
by Brian Murphy | March 05, 2019
We will release our newest report, 2019 Healthcare Provider Analytics Market Trends Report, in the next few days. This report reviews the current market for provider analytics and evaluates offerings from 23 different vendors. Key Takeaways Value-based care is the dominant business driver for adoption of analytics solutions by providers. ...
by Alex Lennox-Miller | February 25, 2019
This is the second in a series of blog posts recapping HIMSS'19; you can read all our coverage here. My primary purpose at HIMSS’19 was gathering information and ideas for our upcoming report on the front door to care. This report will take a close look at the evolving ways patients ...
by John Moore | February 19, 2019
Frankly, I was dreading attending HIMSS this year. I’ve grown tired of the hype, the noise and just how little we have accomplished as an industry in the past few years. We have not contained costs, but have increased clinician burnout. We have made only a modest impact on quality, ...
by John Moore | February 07, 2019
Next week, most of the healthcare IT industry will descend on Orlando to attend HIMSS’19. This is my 12th year attending HIMSS, an event for me that is more about networking and confirming assumptions than actually learning anything new. For years now, HIMSS and the multitude of vendors exhibiting there ...
by Matt Guldin | February 04, 2019
In this webinar, Chilmark Analyst Matt Guldin presents key findings from our report, Bundled Payments: Current Strategies and Tools. Afterward, he and special guest Andrew Tessier (Business Development Director, Signature Medical Group) discuss the financial and strategic implications of bundled payments and the IT options for providers. Key topics addressed: Market ...
by John Moore | January 31, 2019
On Tuesday I had the pleasure to be at Aetna - CVS Health’s grand announcement for Attain, an Apple Watch-based app that will be released later this Spring. Aetna and Apple co-developed this application – Aetna providing the healthcare expertise and Apple its user interface chops. Attain is yet another ...
by Matt Guldin | January 23, 2019
Key Takeaways: Walgreens ‘front door to care’ strategy is built around multiple horizontal partnerships. There are questions about how quickly these partnerships can scale to meet investors’ concerns and how Walgreens will monetize them. It is unclear how this new Microsoft partnership announcement fits in with the Walgreens digital consumer ...
by John Moore | January 21, 2019
Once again, it is that time of the year for our annual pilgrimage to HIMSS. While many attendees focus on the sheer size of the exhibit hall or packing their schedule full of meetings, we wanted to highlight the other major part of the event: education sessions. Below are this ...
by Hannah Ehnle | January 14, 2019
Last month, Alex Lennox-Miller joined Chilmark Research as our newest analyst. He will lead our research on population health management, though he is already helping out in a few other domains as well. Before Chilmark, Alex worked as a Senior Business Analyst at Lahey Health System, a provider organization with ...
by Brian Edwards | January 03, 2019
Key Takeaways Fear of AI has given way to exuberant optimism/anticipation/impatience. Many vendors are trying to pivot their legacy products as next-generation AI platforms/marketplaces. Confidence in AI performance will only come with independent validation. Cloud has faded to the background. Not everything about AI is good news, adversarial attacks could ...
by Matt Guldin | December 13, 2018
Key Takeaways Current vendor solutions are limited and generally require additional advisory services. Few available solutions offer workflow integration, especially across post-acute care settings, to assist in the execution of bundled episodes. Larger HCOs will weather the shift to bundled payments more easily than their smaller counterparts, especially as bundled ...
by Chilmark Team | December 10, 2018
The Meaningful Use gravy train finally came to an end in 2018. As the strongest EHR vendors struggle to define new revenue streams, weaker ones faded from view through acquisitions or leveraged buy-out. Meanwhile, funding for 'digital health' start-ups continued to increase, though it likely hit the high water mark ...
