Connected Health

The following Vital Signs presents highlights from our attendance at Health 2.0 in Santa Clara, CA. This meeting is held every fall in the San Francisco area and is considered to be one of the premier events to gage the latest trends in disruptive health IT, particularly related to consumer health and patient engagement. We discuss our perspectives...

Wellness has emerged as a fairly umbrella term within the last 5 years. Factors for this include changing attitudes to control health cost by moving from defined benefit to defined contribution structures, and technology tools and transparencies that are shifting capitation from providers to consumers through increased consumer participation and re...

Beginning October 1, American citizens who do not have health insurance will be eligible to purchase standardized insurance coverage using the new health insurance marketplaces, formally referred to as health insurance exchanges (HIX). This offering will be administered either by their state, federal government, or a combination of both. CMS has re...

This study provides a roadmap for understanding the patient engagement movement and the use of patient portal technology by hospitals and physicians as the essential tool to drive that process. Included is an overview of macro trends in patient engagement and a comprehensive look at key features and functions associated with patient portals. Major ...

Cloud technologies are rapidly invading all industries, and healthcare does not want to be left behind. Healthcare delivery and solutions are undergoing a transformation, thanks to cloud-based solutions that are emerging as the technology of choice for many healthcare providers. However, the significant cost and business process change associated w...

The following Vital Signs presents analyst perspectives from our attendance at ACE 2013. The Allscripts Client Experience (ACE) is the companys annual user conference, held this year in Chicago, August 21-23. It offers registrants access to educational sessions, networking opportunities and more. During the event, Allscripts shows clients how to g...

This issue of Vital Signs, released on August 31, 2013, explores the needs of an ever-expanding healthcare IT and interactive domain in a patient-centric model and identifies the criteria for true intelligent systems that are defining new approaches to care, facilitating the gathering and array of health information, including population management...

This research study provides an understanding of the healthcare information systems (HIS) within the context of the European market. HIS can be broadly segmented into clinical and non-clinical segments as well as into software and services segments, based on vendor product and service offerings. The scope for Europe includes the United Kingdom, Ger...

Digital health is an important area, which is expected to positively drive healthcare transformation and change the experience of all stakeholders in how they interact with technology and engage each other. This market insight presents some interesting points observed at the Digital Health Summer Summit, including the BlueStar announcement from We...