HIE Report is Released
The long awaited, dare I say anticipated HIE Market Report is now complete and ready for purchase. This report, arguably the most comprehensive report yet published on this rapidly evolving market...
View ArticleOrion 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...
View ArticleSiemens 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...
View ArticleMicrosoft Bows Out of the Clinical Market
Today, GE and Microsoft announced a joint venture (JV) that will lead to the formation of a new company (NewCo) targeting the clinical healthcare market sector. The NewCo will be located near Microsoft...
View ArticleCaradigm 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...
View ArticleHIMSS-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...
View ArticleFree Research: Migration to Clinician Network Mgmt
Last summer we published another edition of our popular Health Information Exchange (HIE) Market Trends Report. Over the years, this report has for many, become the “authoritative source of information...
View ArticleOrion Health Aspires to PaaS
The interoperability problems that plague healthcare are compounded by the paucity of developer options for modern software development. Software as a Service (SaaS) models are increasingly commonplace...
View ArticleHIMSS’15 Pilgrimage: Impressions and Takeaways
Another year, another HIMSS conference. While I often may gripe about this event; the seemingly endless parroting of buzzword(s) de jour, the countless press releases that really are much ado about...
View ArticlePush for Interop – Two Initiatives Lead Way
Competing Platforms HIEs only add value to patient encounters when clinicians are connected to them. The capability to provide clinical information exchange is a great tool for clinicians when they...
View ArticleCare Coordination: The HIE Has Waited a Long Time
Care Plan Update As predicted last year, comprehensive care coordination solutions are rapidly becoming an important way for disparate clinicians across multiple organizations to collaborate at a...
View ArticleThe Promise and Challenges of Analytics Marketplaces in Healthcare
Algorithmic Market Advances Plug-and-play data analytics or finding ways to more efficiently export algorithmic models to use with large datasets has been steadily entering fields outside healthcare...
View ArticleOpen 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...
View ArticleNew Models of Primary Care After the Front Door
While there is no single complete definition of ‘primary care’ in the United States, most of the various definitions agree that primary care is first contact care covering a broad list of diagnosis,...
View ArticleSetting the Stage: Integration Infrastructure
Join Brian and John as they discuss Brian’s latest research on Integration Infrastructure in healthcare, particularly its role in enabling health information technologies. This framing is an evolution...
View ArticleHot Take | Immunization Tracking: A Uniquely Pertinent Case for Interoperability
In this Hot Take, our Director of Research, Brian Murphy, digs into a timely example of one of the important ways healthcare interoperability is currently lacking: easily accessible immunization...
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