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HIE Market Snippets
In January, we released our HIE Market Report: Analysis & Trends which was extremely well-received. Sales have exceeded our rather optimistic projections – great for us. But what we are most proud...
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Who Will be the Salesforce.com of Healthcare IT?
Last week was the massive Salesforce.com user conference Dreamforce (massive in that there were more attendees at Dreamforce then this year’s HIMSS!). We’ve been reviewing more than a few articles and...
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Orion Strengthens Portfolio & MSFT Gains HIE Partner
On Monday, New Zealand based Orion Health announced that it would acquire the mothballed Health Information Services (HIS) assets of Microsoft, Amalga HIS. In the same announcement, Orion and Microsoft...
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Siemens Jumps into HIE Waters
Acquisition fever has set in and they’re dropping like flies, independent HIE vendors that is. Earlier today, Siemens announced its intent to acquire enterprise HIE vendor MobileMD. So in little over a...
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Looking Back on 2011 – What A Strange Year It’s Been
It is almost becoming the norm to say that it has been another tumultuous year in the healthcare IT market. Market consolidation, pushback on timelines, growing chorus from IT departments that enough...
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Why We Won’t See EHR Consolidation Anytime Soon
All too frequently I get the question: When will we see the EHR market consolidate? Not an unreasonable question considering just how many EHRs there are in the market today (north of 300) and all the...
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Benchmarking Payers Adoption of Consumer Tech
Awhile back, a large health insurer (payer) commissioned Chilmark Research to do a market scan on how payers across the country were using emerging consumer technologies to engage their members. We...
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2013 – A Year of Surprises
In the blink of an eye, a New Year has appeared and with it the need to look into our crystal ball (or is it a magic 8 ball) to make our annual predictions for the healthcare IT sector. Personally, I...
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ACO Here, ACO There, ACO, ACO Everywhere & Vendor Response
In less than two years we have gone from Accountable Care Organization (ACO) as a concept, to ACO as a new model of care delivery. With the January announcement that there were 106 more added to the...
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Caradigm Kills eHealth, Partners with Orion
Today, Caradigm and Orion Health announced their partnership wherein Caradigm will go to market with Orion Health’s HIE solution suite and likewise Orion Health will take Caradigm’s analytics...
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Who will regulate mHealth? Patient Engagement at Crossroads; New Alliance...
We came back from HIMSS and got right to work on the March Monthly Update for Chilmark Advisory Services subscribers. As we’ve reported in a previous post, HIMSS13 afforded enormous buzz and less...
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Here an HIE, There an HIE, Everywhere an HIE
In late March, I headed down to Belize with a bunch of high school students to do some service work. Joining the crew was a parent, Harry (not his real name), who happened to be a urologist sharing a...
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Has Avado Acquisition Awakened the WebMD Giant
WebMD, the once-darling of consumer health who seemingly lost its way following pharma dollars, may at last be coming back to its roots. Last week, WebMD made headlines by announcing it had purchased...
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What’s in Store for 2014?
That time of year once again where we collectively look into our crystal ball, or throw the sticks or maybe even look at the coffee grinds dripping down the sides on our coffee cup to see what may be...
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HIMSS-pressions
What an epic (or is it Epic, or for that matter EPIC) ride where one seemingly goes in and out of noise tunnels on the exhibit floor all in the hopes of finding some meaningful signal as to what is...
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Big Fish Swallows Another – Will it Choke?
Rumors that have been floating around for months that Siemens planned to exit the health IT (HIT) market have come true. Earlier today, Cerner announced that it will acquire Siemens HIT business for a...
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Alere Unravels: What Went Wrong, What it Means
This week we published a new Domain Monitor digging into the recent Optum acquisition of Alere’s health management business, which mostly pertains to their remote monitoring devices and related...
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Partners’ quest for South Shore Hospital fueled a backlash and debate over how big is too big Robert Weisman and Scott Allen for The Boston Globe “Partners Healthcare desire to expand in Massachusetts...
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.750 Prediction Batting Average for 2014
Hard to believe the year is coming so quickly to a close. A year that saw ONC pretty much implode, an ACA that is garnering fans faster than detractors, an explosion in all things wearable but little...
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Kryptiq Goes Private
This afternoon, Surescripts announced that its subsidiary, Kryptiq, will be taken private via a management buy-out led by Kryptiq founder and CEO, Luis Machuca. Surescripts will maintain a minority...
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