by Chilmark Team | February 13, 2020
Once again, the Chilmark team is headed to Orlando for another HIMSS Global Conference and Exhibition. While many focus on the excitement in the exhibit hall and evening networking events, there is also a wealth of wisdom shared in educational sessions throughout the convention center all week. Here are our ...
by Brian Murphy | February 07, 2020
The healthcare exchange status quo got a boost last week in a legal victory for Ciox Health. The release of information vendor challenged HHS guidance that limited the fees it could charge when patients asked it to transmit their data to third parties. The decision frees companies from constraints on ...
by John Moore | February 05, 2020
Or Interop, Privacy and Advancing Care The annual ONC meeting last week brought together stakeholders to discuss policy for health IT and most importantly, interoperability. With new interoperability rules expected in the coming weeks, this was a particularly important meeting with no less than HHS Sec. Azar giving a keynote. ...
by Alex Lennox-Miller | January 30, 2020
Roughly two years after we reviewed the first FDA guidance on Clinical Decision Support (CDS), FDA issued new draft guidance. The FDA was criticized for not basing their first draft regulation criteria on use-case risk. Since then the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF), which the FDA chaired, created a ...
by John Moore | January 20, 2020
Last week was the annual pilgrimage to San Francisco to attend the J.P. Morgan (JPM) conference. Actually, I do not attend the JPM conference itself, but several of the satellite events that happen concurrently. Home base is typically the well-orchestrated, albeit slightly hyped, Start-up Health Festival but most of my ...
by Paul Nardone | January 07, 2020
A recent study tracked patients in 12 health systems across the country for 9 months (March – December 2018) and found that just 0.7% of patient portal users also downloaded their health record data using their phones (accounting for 0.1% of all health system patients, assuming standard adoption rates of ...
by Chilmark Team | December 19, 2019
As we rapidly approach the end of the year it is time once again to look forward to a new year, a new decade. While we will not yet forecast out through the decade ahead (still pondering that), below is our collective look at the health IT market and what ...
by Hannah Ehnle |
In this webinar, Chilmark's Research Director and lead report author Brian Murphy presented key findings from our report, 2019 Healthcare Payer Analytics Market Trends Report. Brian discussed the impact of value-based reimbursement on analytics strategies among payers (including any organization that pay for healthcare, not just health plans), the state ...
by Chilmark Team | December 04, 2019
We must have hit a batter’s slump in 2019. In past years, our predictions of what is to come have resulted in well over a .500 batting average. In 2019 we fell to a paltry .385, which is considered a great batting average in baseball, but not so great for ...
by Brian Murphy | November 18, 2019
The organizations responsible for paying for healthcare – health insurance carriers, health plans, employers, and governmental organizations – rely on analytics and reporting software to improve performance, better understand the needs of their members, and build effective clinician networks. Recently, we issued our inaugural report: 2019 Payer Analytics Market Trends ...
by Hannah Ehnle | November 13, 2019
In this webinar, Senior Analyst Alex Lennox-Miller presents highlights from Chilmak's latest report, Primary Care for the 21st Century: Technology-Enabled and On Demand, about the technologies changing how primary care is delivered. Afterward, special guests Dr. Danny Sands and Justin Barnes joined Alex to discuss their experiences implementing and using ...
by John Moore | November 11, 2019
In the weekly roll-out of yet another healthcare IT conference, I recently attended the Allscripts Customer Experience (ACE) conference in Dallas TX. This is a far smaller, more intimate affair than that of either Epic or Cerner, with roughly 500 customers in attendance representing Allscripts' acute care base (Sunrise and ...
by John Moore | October 30, 2019
Six thousand movers and shakers in healthcare came together in Las Vegas for HLTH, a conference in its second year that has obviously attracted quite a following. The best characterization of this event is a mini JP Morgan (the uber-large annual event held in January) devoted exclusively to digital health. ...
by Alex Lennox-Miller | October 24, 2019
This past week, Paul Nardone and I attended the HIMSS Connected Health Conference. At the end of the week, we were largely wondering, who was this conference for? Was it targeting providers and healthcare systems looking for solutions? Vendors and start-ups looking to enter the market or grow their business? ...
by Chilmark Team | October 11, 2019
By John Moore, Alex Lennox-Miller & Paul Nardone. Cerner wants to be the partner of choice for those seeking a broader presence in healthcare. This was the message, reiterated many times over during Cerner’s user conference (CHC’19) this week. Coupled with this is the desire to be the open platform for ...
by Jody Ranck | October 03, 2019
As the hype cycle for AI continues it is going to be increasingly important for users to ask more questions about the limitations of these systems as well as ask what types of problems will machine learning models such as Deep Learning be best suited. The market is filled with ...
by John Moore | September 26, 2019
This week, Brian Murphy and I had the opportunity to attend the InterSystems Global Summit, whose theme was Healthcare Unbounded. The event was very well attended with a packed audience for first day keynotes and many sessions were standing room only. We heard that InterSystems' Summit had over 700 ...
by Brian Murphy | September 18, 2019
After attending Health Catalyst's Health Analytics Summit (HAS19) last week, I must face the reality that user group meetings give me both vertigo and hope. Vertigo because it turns out I know a lot less about healthcare than the accumulated knowledge and wisdom of my fellow conferees. Hope because, despite the scale ...
by Hannah Ehnle | September 12, 2019
After interning at Chilmark last summer, Paul Nardone has returned full-time to continue his work supporting lead analysts with researching and writing reports, developing graphics and other additional material to accompany reports, and writing some blog posts and reports of his own. To help you get to know him, he ...
by Chilmark Team | September 05, 2019
Last week, Chilmark Research attended the Epic Systems 2019 Users Group Meeting (UGM) in Verona, Wisconsin. On Epic’s 40th anniversary, we received a full history of the company’s growth, a glimpse into where it's headed, and how it sees the future of healthcare and health IT evolving. As always, it ...
