Expert Insights from Health IT Industry Analysts
The Chilmark Research blog is the foundation of the analyst firm. Weekly blogging is how our founder first established credibility in the industry all the way back in 2007, becoming a core platform for industry discussion and engagement since those early days. You can see how our subject matter experts are viewing developing technology use cases, the narratives surrounding their adoption and regulation, and engage with this coverage directly in the comments. Click through any of the articles below to see what’s new!
IBM Watson Health: Steady Progress
Couple of weeks back IBM held an all day analyst event here in Massachusetts to provide an update on applications and use cases for Watson. The afternoon focused more specifically on providing an update of Watson Health, which is still very much a work-in-progress....
A Different Approach to Health App Curation
In a recent fit of insomnia, I downloaded a free Electronic Arts version of Scrabble onto my Android phone. I made my decision based on four things: The name of the app, the name of the developer, its star rating in Google Play, and the user reviews, which offered a...
Rise of the Conveners
No this isn’t a post about the latest Michael Bay sequel in the Transformers’ movie franchise. Instead, I wanted to focus on the acquisition last month of Curaspan, a leading vendor in discharge planning, by naviHealth. This is the second health IT acquisition by...
CMS Drops MACRA Rules – 5 Things to Know About MIPS
Big news this week when on Wednesday CMS dropped the draft rules for MACRA, all 962 pages worth. These rules are the outcome of legislation that passed a couple of years back to replace the flawed SGR reimbursement model for physicians and hospitals. In its place, CMS...
Provider-Led Care Management: Trends and Opportunities in a Growing Market
Join us this today at 1 pm ET/10 am PT for a special, free webinar sponsored by HIStalk. Matt Guldin, lead analyst on our recent Care Management Market Trends report, will be presenting some of the key findings of this inaugural, market-defining report. At its core,...
Sidestepping the Silos for Advanced Directives
All patients are urged to have a living will, a healthcare proxy, and advanced directives. The latter come in various flavors and spell out the treatment the patient wishes should they become unable to direct their caregivers. The do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order is a...
Design Healthcare for People at Their Worst
Much of the rhetoric surrounding healthcare innovation is happy. Smiling young people run along a river on a sunny day, then check their FitBits. Smiling parents hold iPads while they connect to a smiling pediatrician over video chat. Smiling nurses use...
Needed: A Value Chain Model for Data Analytics
Coming out of HIMSS 2016 I was struck by the sheer number of Population Health Management offerings. There are a myriad of vendors offering a multitude of data analytics offerings for providers and payers navigating the new waters of value-based care. Of course we had...
Kill the Patient Portal
I'll probably catch a lot of heat for this post, but this has to be said. It is time to accept that the patient portal, as currently architected, is a complete dead-end. Our national efforts to promote patient portals through meaningful use requirements has created a...
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