As the team here in Nashville continues to refine the upcoming release (February 2008) requirements of our enhanced platform, which henceforth shall be referred to as “Project Thunderbolt aka PT” in this post — I took some time to get caught up on the plethora of health2.0 and web2.0 and other feeds clogging my Google Reader pipes (bursting at 188 feeds and 500+ unread articles…sigh, i’m very behind).  Below is a picture of the PT purpose/focus of our new platform name… which the specs were already finalized several weeks ago and coding has already begun:

Ironically, the team (who did not go to the SF conference) came up with the 7 core items independently with little guidance from Rob and me (honestly).

So as i came across the post from Matthew Holt and Marty Tennanbaum… well, read both quoted items and it will help to lay the groundwork of where the MedBillManager a la Project Thunderbolt team is evolving. Maybe not literally, but i suspect that when we unveil our platform in February that Marty will be calling to tell the team (not me) that we’ve “done good!”

Marty Tenenbaum’s vision of accelerated eHealth (as espoused at the San Francisco Health2.0 Conference):

This organization would do for ehealth what CommerceNet did for ecommerce by catalyzing the market. The Blog posting focused on standards. While standards are important, so is evangelism, business development, lobbying, and especially visionary integration projects that demonstrate the potential of Health 2.0 for improving people’s lives.

and per Matthew Holt’s Health 2.0 Blog…

Early CommerceNet members included startups like Netscape, Yahoo, and Amazon as well as established organizations like Visa/Mastercard, FedEx and IBM. The members of CommerceNet collaborated on initiatives like search, catalogs, security, payment, and shipping/fulfillment, leading to complete end-end transactions where one could actually locate a product, buy it, pay for it and get it delivered. Not only was overall market growth accelerated; many business deals resulted, generating a lot of wealth.

The parallels with Health 2.0 are obvious. Like the days of ecommerce, many energetic entrepreneurs are exploring the seemingly limitless opportunities and obstacles of a huge and important market. Each provides useful but highly fragmented data or services (e.g.,PHRs, search, patient and doctor communities). Aggregating data across communities and integrating services into complete solutions (e.g., selecting the best treatment or physician for you) is much more valuable to consumers and essential if we’re actually going to impact healthcare in meaningful ways.