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mHealth13: Lots Going On, But Few New Developments

Chilmark Research

Another year, another mHealth Summit. However, despite some early hints of maturity, the mHealth Summit revealed the mobile healthcare market’s overall identity confusion. When we talk mHealth, we hope for clinical interventions, enhanced communication, behavior improvements, incorporation of patient-generated data, and so forth.

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HIMSS14: Patiently Waiting for Progress

Chilmark Research

HIE vendors are looking to build out patient portals and care coordination applications as they transition from building pipelines to demonstrating value. Instead of looking ahead, HIE vendors are looking at MU2 and assembling a new crop of anemic patient portals that allow VDT and little else. HIEs Look Backward.

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Progress Amidst the Stumbles: Patient Engagement at #HIMSS15

Chilmark Research

What follows here are some of our high level observations and light musings based on a very busy week of meetings, presentations, press releases, and criss-crossing the exhibition hall. The concept of “portal sprawl” driving market appetite for a “portal of portals” was ubiquitous.

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