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Wal-Mart EMR Mandate Implications
Wal-Mart, over the last few years has been aggressively moving into the healthcare market with one of its first big moves being the selling of some generics for $4/prescription. In an investor call...
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Civic Duty?
If you get bored of walking the aisles of HIMSS and can’t bear to hear another vendor pitch, well you could always wander over to a session where people will gather to discuss and reach consensus on...
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Amalga = Amalgamation
Earlier this week, Microsoft announced the release of its new product suite for the healthcare sector, Amalga. Almaga includes the Azyxxi solution, which they acquired from Medstory, and the Global...
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HIMSS – PHR Platforms MIA
Received an email this weekend from the organizers of the big healthcare IT conference, HIMSS, which will be held next week in Orlando. This is the BIG EVENT, where virtually all present and future...
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Taking 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...
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Good Event Coming Up
The World Health Care Congress will have its 5th annual event this coming April 21-23 in Washington DC. Quite an impressive line-up of speakers (Toby Cosgrove will be there) with sessions targeting all...
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Privacy Rights Smack-down in NH
This week, the “Live Free or Die” state of New Hampshire’s House voted down House Bill 1587, a bill that would have strengthened the privacy rights of consumers. The biggest objections to this bill...
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Philips Picks Up Niche CVIS Software Company
Yesterday, Phillips announced that it will acquire Irish-based healthcare software provider TOMCAT Systems, Ltd. for an undisclosed sum. TOMCAT, based in Belfast with about 25 employees, offers a...
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What Might an Ideal EHR Look Like?
A Blog I frequently visit is that of John Halamka, the CIO at Boston based Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital. Halamka is also one of those people that has seemingly unlimited amounts of energy, is on all...
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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...
View ArticleDigging Into Microsoft’s HealthVault – Part One: Search
As I reported earlier, Microsoft has jumped into the consumer healthcare market with the October 4th launch of HealthVault (HV). Microsoft was kind enough to provide me with an in-depth briefing on...
View ArticleDigging Into Microsoft’s HealthVault: Part Two (a) – The Platform
I came into this review with very high hopes, hopes that Microsoft, with its vast resources and market clout, would make a major splash in the rapidly evolving consumer health IT (HIT) market. I was...
View ArticleDigging Into Microsoft’s HealthVault: Part Two (b) – The Experience
Have you ever come home from a strenuous work-out famished and can find nothing in the cupboards or the refrigerator to satisfy your cravings? If so, then you have some idea of what I experienced on...
View ArticleIndivo Health: Further Details on Dossia Agreement
Had the opportunity last week to get an update from Will Crawford and Ken Mandl of the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program (CHIP), a joint collaboration of Harvard Medical and MIT. The objective...
View ArticleMicrosoft Joins Others to Rachet-up Privacy Campaign
Over on the WSJ Health blog there is a quick posting on how Microsoft joined with some 40 plus organizations including the ACLU, AIDS Action, and Gun Owners of America, to name a few in lobbying...
View ArticleQuick Snippets from Connected for Health
Big draw of over 750 attendees. Good representation of the industry, with primary focus on telehealth, thus plenty of representatives from this sector including in no particular order, Cisco, Sharp,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Expands HIT Footprint with Thai Acquisition
Microsoft announced it will acquire Global Care Solutions Thailand, Ltd (GCS) for an undisclosed sum. GCS is a small company that has developed a diverse range of healthcare IT (HIT) software modules,...
View ArticleGE and Boston Scientific Push Telehealth Envelop
Mid last week, GE and Boston Scientific made an interesting announcement wherein Boston Scientific’s patient monitoring platform, LATITUDE will be able to automatically update a patient’s...
View ArticleUpdate on the GE-Boston Scientific Partnership
Recently wrote a brief post on the GE-Boston Scientific partnership, but left a few questions unanswered awaiting a reply from one of the companies. Received an email today that helps clarify the...
View ArticleWharton School Takes a Look at PHRs
University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School has published an article this week on the Personal Health Records (PHRs) market. Article provides an overview on some of the key issues regarding PHRs,...
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