The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

Digital health is unquestionably becoming part of healthcare lexicon and fabric. Electronic health records (EHRs) and personal fitness trackers have helped create awareness through use. According to most recent statistics from the Office of the National Coordinator, use of EHRs has increased from 20% in 2004 to 87% in 2015.

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Chilmark Research

APRIL 3, 2013

Public vs. Private Oversight of Mobile Health. The announcement of CommonWell Health Alliance was likely the biggest story to come out of HIMSS (Allscripts acquiring longtime HIE partner dbMotion may have been a close second). The group’s stated purpose is to enable interoperability across the five founding members’ EHRs.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The Federal Trade Commission released an updated Mobile Health Apps Tool created with input from ONC, OCR, and the FDA. The Sequoia Project published an implementation guide for HIE technology for vendors, networks, and testers. The health plan will also offer virtual behavioral health services from Brave as part of the program.

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Chilmark Research

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Despite having the largest booths at the conference, our probing of the TeleComs did not result in a mention of a single live paying customer in mobile – just internal launches, repeated defaulting to old HIE partnerships from years ago, or shifty mentions of forthcoming press releases in 2014.

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