Some Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) and Personal Health Record (PHR) solutions to keep an eye on as ARRA pumps money into online medical records:
Microsoft Amalga
http://www.microsoft.com/amalga is an enterprise solution for hospitals, which aggregates disparate data stores (medications, electronic medical records, imaging and radiology, labs etc.) in a single information system. Developed by Washington Hospital Center, it was acquired by Microsoft in 2006. Amalga currently runs on Windows Server and SQL Server 2005.
In a strategically interesting move, Microsoft has just launched a version of Amalga for research organizations, Amalga Life Sciences. This product brings business intelligence tools to the suite of integrated healthcare data services.
- dbMotion spun off of Ness Technologies in 2004, and lists Vertex Venture Capital and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center among its investors.
- Orion Health is a privately held organization based in Auckland, New Zealand with approximately 250 employees.
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Microsoft HealthVault
http://www.healthvault.com/ is Personal Health Record (PHR) system, a consumer-oriented health and fitness store, which healthcare providers can implement. As of April, HealthVault is an integrated option for Amalga.
Indivo
http://indivohealth.org/ is the third main PHR solution in use here in the US. Indivo is open source, as opposed to Google which uses open source tools to build proprietary solutions like Google Health, so organizations that implement Indivo are able to customize the solution from ground up.
