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Interview with Adam Bosworth, formerly of Google Health
Adam Bosworth made quite a name for himself in the healthcare space while he was leader of the Google Health initiative. All got quite strange, however, when while on vacation late last summer,...
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Cleveland Clinic & HealthVault Unite
In an interesting twist, Cleveland Clinic and Microsoft’s HealthVault Grp announced a partnership this morning to address chronic disease management. The interesting twist is that Cleveland Clinic was...
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DoD Launches Pilot PHR, MiCare with Google & Microsoft
Last month, we posted on reports that the Department of Defense (DoD) was working with both Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault to provide military personnel and their families a PHR. On Friday,...
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HealthVault Adds Another Arrow to its Quiver
Seemingly on a roll, OptumHealth, the consumer facing health and wellness division of United Health Group (UHG), the nation’s largest health insurer, announced yesterday that it will support health...
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Taking the Plunge: The Scripps-Navigenics Study
In early October, a joint announcement was made by the medical research institute Scripps, genetic testing company Navigenics, genetic testing instrument supplier Affymetrix and Personal Health...
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Might Real Value of Genetic Testing Lie Elsewhere?
Yesterday’s post talked about my recent “plunge” into the world of genetic testing via participation in the Scripps-Navigenics study. A comment by Microsoft HealthVault’s Chief Architect, Sean Nolan...
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Cloud Computing in Healthcare, A Presentation
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...
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Connecting to Health Coaches with Wii Fit
The extremely popular Wii gaming system will begin connecting directly to health professionals in April. It appears that this will be first offered in Japan combining the existing Wii Fit and Wii...
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Fixing the Wellness Conundrum
My friends over at the Humana skunk-works CrumpleItUp (sure hope they aren’t paid in Human stock after yesterday’s rout, 24% drop – OUCH) put up an interesting post that takes a hard look at Wellness...
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Navigenics: The Experience
Results are in from the Navigenics test and my sometime absent mindedness is unlikely to be caused from Alzheimer’s as I am at a very low risk of this disease, at least according to my genetic make-up....
View ArticleTaking Baby Steps, Google & Cleveland Clinic Partner on PHRs
Late yesterday, the Cleveland Clinic announced that they have partnered with Google to do a pilot (beta) of the Google PHR. Cleveland Clinic intends to allow, by invitation, about 1-10% of its existing...
View ArticleMicrosoft Openness Follows with Open Checkbook
Today at HIMSS, Microsoft announced the establishment of the HealthVault Be Well Fund. Microsoft will provide $3M in seed funding for developers to build apps that will leverage the HealthVault...
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Google’s Schmidt Outlines Health Platform
Though Google announced the formal unveiling of their PHR last week, via the deal with Cleveland Clinic, today was the true coming out event when Google CEO Eric Schmidt formally introduced Google...
View ArticleGood Post on Google & Microsoft Platforms
Vince, over on his e-Care Management blog has a good post up today where he compares the respective consumer healthcare platforms from Microsoft (HealthVault) and Google Health. Bottom line for Vince...
View ArticleHow Open is Open? or Did I Speak to Soon?
Quite a big splash was made by Microsoft when it announced that it was opening itself up by publishing specifications to much of its source code to promote interoperability. Sean Nolan, chief architect...
View ArticleWill You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me…
There are any number of statistics that one can point to telling us we in serious trouble. From the epidemic that is obesity to the persistent climb in diabetes cases and let us not forget Alzheimer’s,...
View ArticleWhy Extending HIPAA to PHRs is NOT a Good Idea
There has been a lot of talk about extending current HIPAA regulations to address non-covered entities, particularly PHR vendors. Many believe that this is what is needed to preserve consumer privacy....
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Google Health Goes Live – Quick Analysis
Late this afternoon, Google Health Beta officially opened its doors for anyone to sign-up. While I did predict they would go live in the 2nd quarter, I was thinking end of the quarter, not the...
View ArticleNEWS FLASH: iPHR Market Report Now Available
The long awaited PHR Market Report that we at Chilmark Research have been tirelessly working on is now available for purchase. Titled, iPHR Market Report, Analysis & Trends in Internet-based...
View ArticleAetna’s CEO Again Attacks 3rd Party PHRs
You may recall that during an interview last October with the fine folks who manage the WSJ’s Health Blog that Aetna’s CEO, Ron Williams called Microsoft’s personal health platform, HealthVault and...
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Lacking Imagination – Be Well Fund Chooses Winners
Just got a press release from the fine folks at Microsoft announcing the 15 winners of the Be Well Fund. The Be Well Fund was established to help fund the development of novel applications for...
View ArticleYesterday in DC: AHIC Mtg Highlights
Yesterday, I had the honor to present to Sec. Leavitt and the AHIC on trends and projections for personal health information. As I had only a brief 10 minutes to work with, I needed to put together a...
View ArticleConnecting the Ecosystem: Interview with RelayHealth
Couple of weeks back Microsoft’s HealthVault announced a strategic partnership with McKesson’ RelayHealth for which I wrote a short post. Following up on the announcement, I recently had the...
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What’s All the Fuss – Some Thoughts on Recent News
At times it can be challenging to draft commentary on all that is happening across this industry sector. Rather than write short posts for each, I have created an amalgamation of commentary to some of...
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HealthVault’s Demise — No Surprise
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...
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