This is the transcript of my recent podcast interview with Castlight Health President John Driscoll.David E. Williams:This is David Williams, co-founder of MedPharma Partners and author of the Health Business Blog. I’m speaking today with John Driscoll, who’s just been named president of Castlight Health.John, thanks for being with me. Congratulations on your new role.John [...]

A few years ago, cost, privacy concerns, design shortcomings and trouble sharing information across different health systems were deemed the most critical barriers to widespread adoption of electronic personal health records (PHRs) by a paper in the Health Affairs journal.This week, a new low-cost, interoperable, untethered, user-controlled mobile platform launched with the hope of tackling [...]

In our rush to establish a national electronic medical record (EMR) system as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, powerful silos of independent EMR systems have sprung up nationwide. While most systems are being developed responsibly, like the Wild, Wild West, many have been developed without an objective eye toward quality [...]

I recently presented a webinar outlining the the IT work ahead to support Accountable Care Organizations.Here are the slides that I used.I recommended five priorities to create a foundation for care management and population health:1. Universal adoption of EHRs – every clinician in an ACO needs to record data electronically, ideally using the same EHR [...]

How powerful is the electronic medical record? Practice Fusion will stretch the EMR’s muscles over the next year as it tries to incorporate patient-friendly tools and make the product more social. Think one part Yelp and another part Facebook with a dash of telemedicine.On Sunday night the company will launch a physician review portal built [...]

How does a state that’s been consistently ranked near the bottom of every “healthiest places” list, with high prevalence of obesity, smoking, diabetes and heart disease, find itself a leader in something as new and challenging as health information exchange?According to two of the guys helping run the show, it’s lots of forward-thinking people, some [...]

What cloud-based health information exchange providers like AT&T, Verizon and DR Systems are doing for health systems, eDossea aims to do for dentist offices.The cloud-based, file-sharing and storage platform is designed specifically to enable dentists, specialists and oral surgeons to share electronic dental records in the form of patient information, X-rays and follow-up reports in [...]

An entrepreneur looking for a way to make meetings and decision-making less painful ended up helping doctors collaborate by sharing patient records and opinions on the best treatment option.Taylor Beery of VoteIt said that as he started to promote the company, he met a doctor who was using Yahoo Groups to share files with colleagues.“He [...]

A medical records startup is hoping to take what is for many doctor’s offices an unorganized, frustrating process and make it not only simpler but also more profitable.Healthcare entrepreneur Matt Cottrell’s newest venture is 5 O’clock Records, an online platform that helps doctors’ offices streamline the work flow for fulfilling medical records requests from health [...]

It isn’t really fair to say health IT startup Explorys has changed its plan since it started. That’s because when the company started, it didn’t have a plan.That might not be so rare in the tech world that founders Steve McHale (CEO) and Charlie Lougheed (president and CTO) hail from, but it’s a little less [...]