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Finally, Some Concrete Use Cases for Telehealth
A recent report has gone great lengths to explain how and to what extent telehealth can improve outcomes, and it is well worth a read if your healthcare organization (HCO) plans to explore investments...
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Marrying Consumer and Clinical Telehealth Will Take Work
Last year, after attending two very different conferences in a two-week span, I wrote about healthcare’s parallel paths of innovation. Silicon Valley follows one line, and brick-and-mortar healthcare...
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A Shift From Disruption to Change
One of the most striking characteristics of the Health 2.0 conference has always been its focus on disruption. (For this we owe Clayton Christensen a debt of gratitude.) In rapid succession, startups...
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Elephants, Egrets, and Healthcare Partnerships
Having attended my fair share of healthcare IT conferences through the years, I’ve learned to separate the signal from the noise much like scientists searching for signs of intelligent alien life. In...
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Looking Back – Assessing Our 2016 Predictions
As has become a tradition here at Chilmark Research, it is time once again to look back at our predictions for 2016 and make an honest assessment of just how accurate we were. We do like to go beyond...
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Looking to 2017: Our Baker’s Dozen Forecast
2016 is heading for the doors, 2017 readily awaits. But what will this New Year bring? One thing for sure, a new president and administration that appears intent on rewriting the rules, be they foreign...
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Open APIs: The Promise and Hope from Outside the HIT Bubble
APIs (application programming interfaces) are a hot topic in healthcare these days. In the parlance of the moment – interest inside the health IT (HIT) bubble is strong. During the past few months, I...
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Providers and Telehealth: Ready For One Another?
The telehealth market has enjoyed an upward rise over the last couple of years. After signing on a number of payers, employers, and retailers, telehealth vendors have even begun gaining traction with...
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The Promise of Consumer-Driven Health
As John pointed out last week, I’m the newest member of Chilmark Research. I’ve joined the team to wrap my head around the role of the patient/consumer/citizen in the healthcare process. This role has...
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Getting Closer to Virtual Care
From a technology perspective, the US healthcare system’s shift towards population health management (PHM) is built on a central premise: By collecting and analyzing data across a defined population,...
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Delivering on the Promise of Remote Patient Monitoring
A Model for Remote Patient Monitoring The US healthcare system’s gradual but steady shift towards value-based care has unleashed a new wave of opportunities for health IT vendors of all stripes. As we...
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Going Beyond the Obvious: 2016 Predictions for Healthcare IT
Never a dull moment in healthcare. 2015 saw plenty of changes and some inklings as to what may be in store for us in 2016. While there was plenty of noise around ICD-10, it was a non-event in 2015....
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3 Real-World Reasons the Scripps Study Failed
Remote Monitoring CAN work – but that doesn’t mean it WILL. (Figure from Chilmark’s Connected Health Report) The results of a six-month study on the impact of connected devices on chronically ill...
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Silicon Valley, Far From Defeated, Is Simply Stuck
Earlier this month, Zenefits joined Theranos and 23andMe on the list of Silicon Valley startups to run afoul of regulators. Some commentators refer to the situation at large as Silicon Valley’s...
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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...
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Top 7 Things to Look for at HIMSS17
The final countdown has begun. In a few short days I and the rest of the Chilmark Research team will make our annual pilgrimage to the big health IT confab, HIMSS17, to rub shoulders with some 45,000...
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Driving Policy Without Healthcare Organizations: A Fool’s Errand
Healthcare in the United States faces many problems, but one of the bigger ones is bringing the right stakeholders to the table when it’s time to try to solve a problem. Often, the empty chair should...
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Practical Steps for Turning Big Health Innovation Ideas Into Reality
Every year, the health IT industry follows a pattern. HIMSS inspires us, our heads and notebooks filled with visions of The Next Big Thing that will change healthcare delivery. But shortly after...
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Interest in Condition Management Is Rising – But Not For Everyone Yet
Chilmark Research’s latest report, Assessing the Market for Condition Management Solutions, identifies many reasons that key healthcare stakeholders are beginning to invest in solutions that help...
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Epic UGM 2020: COVID Leads Development
On August 25th, as I was undergoing a procedure at a local hospital, I tuned in to Epic’s virtual UGM keynote session to hear the latest and greatest from one of the leading health IT vendors in the...
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Amazon Makes Their Move into Virtual Care
Amazon has sent not just a signal flare but a full broadside warning into the virtual care industry, announcing that their internal pilot of Amazon Care will be neither internal nor a pilot for much...
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$4B is a Lot for Cherry-Picking and Lemon-Dropping
Babylon Health Makes Public Market Debut Despite Key Unanswered Questions Yet another SPAC announcement brings us the long-anticipated public market emergence of Babylon Health. With the US market’s...
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Keeping Momentum in Telehealth and Virtual Care
If you’d asked almost anyone in the healthcare IT industry about telehealth in mid-2020, their response would have been full of enthusiasm about finally unleashing all the promise telehealth had been...
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With HIMSS22 only a few days away, here are some of our team’s thoughts on what to look for while in Orlando next week. Enabling the Shift to Value-Based Care How well are legacy system-of-record...
View ArticleFrom Boost Mobile and Swype to Xealth: One Entrepreneur’s Journey into...
In this latest executive interview, Mike McSherry speaks with me about how his past successes in consumer tech and an entrepreneur-in-residence opportunity at Providence prepared him for tackling...
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