The Promise of a Little Blue Button
Yesterday, I was in Washington DC to attend ONC’s Consumer Health IT Summit. While having high hopes for some breathtaking new developments, ultimately walked away disappointed as this event ultimately...
View ArticleMoving to HIE 2.0
This week I had the pleasure to be the keynote speaker at Orion Health’s HIE User Conference in the beautiful state of my youth, Colorado. In preparing for this conference I was struck again by just...
View ArticleWill Surescripts Become De facto NwHIN?
Just as Healtheway looks to ween itself off the federal gravy train, Surescripts comes along and in a couple of quick strokes looks ready to drive a stake into the heart of Healtheway or at least any...
View ArticleWhat’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...
View ArticleThree Big Questions for Stage 3 & Patient Engagement
For many, the delay of Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use program evoked a collective sigh of relief, providing a much-needed extra year to focus on the challenging requirements for patient engagement and...
View ArticleIncentives, Regulations and Consequences
Good intentions do not always result, in the long-term, in good policy. Such may be the case with the HITECH Act that was passed as part of the huge stimulus bill ARRA in 2009. This bill launched the...
View ArticleWhat Lies Ahead for Meaningful Use?
After much speculation and mounting criticism of Meaningful Use (MU), two recent developments provided some clarity on the future direction of the program and indications of how rocky a road it will be...
View ArticleWWBR Week of September 29, 2014
Doctors Find Barriers to Sharing Digital Medical Records Julie Creswell for The New York Times “A non-technical overview at the issue of Interoperability, with a focus on everyone’s favorite bad-guy...
View ArticleWWBR Week of October 6, 2014
Dallas hospital blames ‘flaw’ in ‘workflow’ for release of Ebola patient as a more complete picture of his travels emerges Lindsey Bever for The Washington Post “The Ebola patient in the Dallas...
View ArticleCMS 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...
View ArticleMuch Ado About Patient Portals
From Chilmark Research’s perspective, patient portals are by and large Much Ado About Nothing. Sure, plenty of healthcare organizations (HCO) […] The post Much Ado About Patient Portals appeared first...
View ArticleRemember: Technology is but a Tool
Yesterday, Chilmark Research participated in the CRG conference, Driving Change Through Managed Care IT from Provider Payments to Quality, which […] The post Remember: Technology is but a Tool appeared...
View ArticleMusings on PHRs & Consumer Engagement
The recent post on Google Health going into the deep freeze has solicited a number of emails, including some from […] The post Musings on PHRs & Consumer Engagement appeared first on Chilmark.
View ArticleRational Thought Infects HITECH
Couple of weeks back the HIT Policy Committee began to seriously consider what a delay of Stage Two meaningful use […] The post Rational Thought Infects HITECH appeared first on Chilmark.
View ArticleRe-entry into Healthcare
As with the last shuttle mission making its re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere yesterday, I am re-entering the world of […] The post Re-entry into Healthcare appeared first on Chilmark.
View ArticleHIMSS’12 Take-away: Follow the Money
Last week we attended the big healthcare IT confab HIMSS in that grand city of sin, Las Vegas. While many […] The post HIMSS’12 Take-away: Follow the Money appeared first on Chilmark.
View ArticleStruggling to Understand or Data Does Not Equal Empowerment
Recently upon leaving my doctor’s office I was presented with a print-out of my visit summary. Knowing I worked it […] The post Struggling to Understand or Data Does Not Equal Empowerment appeared...
View ArticlePromoting Interoperability: MU Fades to Black
By Brian Murphy and Brian Eastwood Seeking to liberate the industry from its self-created morass of siloed data and duplicative quality reporting programs, the Department of Health and Human Services...
View ArticleSecond EHR Land Grab Just Over Horizon
Digital vs. Paper EHR shortcomings will become a central theme in HIT over the next one to two years. By 2015, in order to address new clinical, financial, and regulatory pressures, third-party...
View ArticleMeasuring Patient Engagement
Rise of Consumer Engagement As Healthcare organizations (HCOs) begin to go “beyond the portal” with their approaches to patient engagement, they are broadening the strategy around measuring...
View ArticleStage 3 and Patient Engagement: VDT, API, PGHD, Oh My! As Industry Goes, So...
Staying the Course Patient engagement requirements outlined in CMS’ Stage 3 regulations have drawn attention for two reasons. First is the aggressive increase in the percentage thresholds from Stage 2....
View ArticleUse As Directed: Getting the Most Out of Patient Engagement Technology
Adoption Strategy Healthcare organizations (HCO) are slowly beginning to approach patient engagement with a strategic outlook that goes beyond the tactical Meaningful Use checklist. As they transition...
View ArticleConsumer Health Data Plays: Vision? Yes. Value? Maybe…
Challenges & Opportunity In an otherwise slow summer, health IT got caught up in a whirl of excitement last month when Apple, Samsung, Google, and a few smaller players announced their own forays...
View ArticleHealth IT for Behavioral and Mental Healthcare
Coaching Technology While the landmark health reform laws enacted in 2009 (HITECH Act) and 2010 (Affordable Care Act, or ACA) have begun transforming certain aspects of the US healthcare system, they...
View ArticleHIMSS’19: Maturing Market Drives Pragmatism
Even the exhibit hall was calmer with vendors focused on solving specific problems instead of the latest buzzword Frankly, I was dreading attending HIMSS this year. I’ve grown tired of the hype, the...
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