It’s a phenomenal time to be an innovator at the intersection of data and health care improvement. I’m incredibly excited by the rising tide of innovations we’re seeing – new products, services and features being […]

In 1999 PersonalMD & HealthCompass were some of the new personal health records (PHRs) where you could store health data and share it with others who needed to see it. They were basically vaults, they rarely even […]

While I was blundering around the excellent Venrock/athenahealth party last night I ran into Missy Krasner. Missy ran David Brailer at ONC and then ran Adam Bosworth at Google Health and is as good as anyone in […]

Steve Schelhammer is the CEO of Phytel, a company we’ve featured at Health 2.0 (here’s the demo from last Fall). They mix registry services with patient outreach. I interviewed him a while back, but the company is […]

HealthPrize was a strong contestant in last year’s Health 2.0 Fall Launch! contest. It’s one of the few start-ups with a brain surgeon and published auto-biographer on the management team, and it’s got an […]

 
Diversinet is a tech company focused squarely on securing the communications of health data between multiple devices. I caught up with Mark Trigsted, Executive VP, Global Healthcare at Diversinet who told me […]

Insurer (and now health tech giant) Aetna has bought leading Health 2.0 consumer tool iTriage. The news of the deal which actually happened in September was made official in Aetna’s investor day conference […]

Every Thanksgiving, Engage With Grace has a blog rally asking everyone to take time to start that most difficult of conversations–what do you want to happen near the end of your life? And as the blog of the […]

The Federal government has been getting behind the Challenges craze in a big way but this one from the Vice President’s Office and HHS is a doozy. Called Apps Against Abuse it asked developers to create an application that would help young people deal with abuse and violence, primarily in the world of dating and relationships. (FD [...]

It’s morning on Day 2 of Health 2.0 Europe. We’re at the on the campus of Charité Hospital and University of Medecine (in the old East Berlin) in the Langenbeck-Virchow Building which is now a conference center for medical societies but apparently was used as a part of the old GDR parliament before 1989. Yesterday, we [...]

Since we first put it on at Health 2.0 in 2008, Launch! has introduced over 45 new companies and products, including Unity Medical, Remedy Ventures, TheCarrot, and the WSJ’s 2010 top (and not just in health!) start-up company, Castlight Health. Launch! is the first time a company has demoed at a conference, and the product must either [...]

As Health Innovation Week kicks up, before 1300 of our best friends arrive for the Health 2.0 Conference on Sunday-Tuesday, on Saturday we are hosting a Health 2.0 Code-a-thon in San Francisco at the PariSOMA loft (11am Saturday 25th to 3pm Sunday 26th). Spots are filling up fast but you can register here & yes, it’s free and there’s [...]

Health 2.0 is thrilled to announce that we are launching two challenges as part of the “official” kick-off of the Investing in Innovation (i2) program. Over the next 2 years the ONC will be issuing nearly $2m in prize money for numerous challenges all designed to inspire innovation in health information technology. Along with our [...]

Now you’ve recovered from Labor day it’s time to make your plans for the Fall. And the most important plan is to get to Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco on Sept 25-27. The price goes up today, so don’t keep procrastinating! The agenda for Health 2.0 Conference is amazing and it’s only half the reason to [...]

Join us for the next episode of the Health 2.0 Show , airing Monday, August 22nd at 12:00 PM PST (3pm EST)–Yes that’s tomorrow  or even today (depending on when you read this!!) We’ll give a preview of the 2011 Health 2.0 fall conference session, Data Drives Decisions: The New World of Analytics, Data Mining and How Big Data [...]

We’ve been watching self tracking at Health 2.0 for a little while, as it emerges from the world of the Quantified Self geeks to becoming a more mainstream set of shiny consumer gadgets. Today’s NY Times takes a look at just a few of the shiniest including Fitbit and the French company Withings. It has a [...]

A little over a week ago Google stated that it was putting a stake through the heart of their personal health platform (PHP) Google Health. We at Chilmark had been expecting this for some time, it was just a manner of when it would become official. Thus, we were somewhat taken aback by all the publicity [...]

This is another in the numerous “death of Google Health” stories that have been appearing since Friday when the Google blog announced the pulling of the plug. I must admit to being more than a little pissed off with Larry Page or whomever it was within Google that made the decision. After all, Google Health was only [...]