Comments on: @WiHealth: Meaningful use should be about connecting people?

By: inchoate but earnest

inchoate but earnest — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:09:59 +0000

Janet Marchibroda is a talented executive, eminently at home in the vast bureaucracies she so confidently predicted will control – which means, make no mistake, stifle – spending on ehr over the next decade.

“led” by people whose only capacities have to do with inter- and intraorganizational political maneuvering, stimulus-fueled ehr innovation will die an ignominious death, heir to the fortunes of local/regional health IT coalition activity.

As with almost all innovation, policy/law/regulation will follow, rather than lead. Janet & her contemporaries have an important role, but that “institutionalizing” role is decidedly secondary to the role of those individuals and organizations who choose to DO something around real health innovation.

By: Marie Brandt

Marie Brandt — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:57:03 +0000

Craig, thank you for your comment about needing a business model outside of government funding. We are trying to bootstrap, but it is obvious we will have to partner. So we are working hard on that model!

I also believe, as you do there is a lot of fear from the consumer that they are not going get value for their dollar. Consumer are afraid they will be wasting their money because there are so many lousy iphone apps out there. Some apps don’t load, don’t run, don’t do anything…. We have actually talked with customers that wanted to talk about the features of our product before they were willing to put down $9.99.

We at CSI, have a wireless health product, motionPHR for the iPhone which is a full blown CCR compliant personal health record. The value is definitely there for $9.99 and now with motionPHR Lite just released to the iTunes marketplace yesterday for $3.99 it gives the consumer an opportunity to see the product for almost nothing and then upgrade in the event they like it to motionPHR.

We are going to announce what we are calling a “Gold Standard” for our iPhone motionPHR application, it’s a full money back guarantee. We haven’t done this yet, but if anyone in the media has an interest in telling this story, we will be announcing it soon.

Marie Brandt
motionPHR.com A Personal Health Record For the iPhone
bmbcsi@gmail.com

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By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:53:06 +0000

mHealth and consumer-focused health care will never fully take hold until there is a business model outside of government funding. Being from Canada, almost all of our healthcare funding comes from government, but there is a real push for consumers to take charge of their health information. The important question is will they pay for it? I believe that we, as vendors and providers, have not done a good enough job at providing value to the consumer. Once we can provide that value, consumers will pay.

Let’s focus on value to the consumer, and we will get broad buy-in.