Delivering patient data and results electronically without adding medical context is a troubling byproduct of health technology, according to a recent Washington Post article. The piece, written in conjunction with Kaiser Health, chronicles the hazards in simply making lab and testing results available to patients online without a clinical interpretation of that data. A recent…
For once, what happened in Vegas should not stay in Vegas! We want all that energy, brainstorming, networking and education to travel right back home with us until next year’s event. HIMSS18 is a wrap but we are still abuzz about the experience. Whether our team was presenting on value-based care to a packed room, dazzling…
Get Real Health is starting 2018 strong with the awarding of the prestigious Maryland International Leadership Award. The World Trade Center Institute (WTCI) chose Get Real Health and six other firms for the award from among 150,000 Maryland companies. CEO, Robin Wiener, attended the ceremony March 8th at the Jim Rouse Visionary Museum in Baltimore with…
HIMSS18 is right around the corner and all we can say is, “Look out!” Get Real Health is taking the event by storm and we are getting pretty psyched about the myriad symposiums, seminars and networking opportunities. HIMSS always starts out with a bang offering pre-conference meetings and sessions. We will be sitting in on…
The ONC 2017 Annual Meeting was held November 30-December 1, 2017 at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC. This year’s event, Tackling Barriers to Interoperability and Usability, featured engaging keynotes, panels, and breakout sessions. And no one is more passionate about improving the usability and interoperability of health IT than our own Director of Healthcare Transformation, Christina Caraballo; which is…
With another Get Real Health User Group in the books, we never cease to be amazed at the synergy these sessions generate. A true testament to our clients and partners! The event kicked off Thursday, September 14th at Palomar Hotel, in Washington DC where clients from all over the globe convened to get product updates,…
Get Real Health has never wavered from its commitment to increasing individuals’ access to their health data. That dedication was recognized recently when the company was among a select group of vendors that participated in a two-day Consumer-Centered Data Exchange (CCDE) Connectathon, September 9–10, 2017. The Connectathon was the precursor to the larger HL7 31st…
For medical facilities positioning themselves to receive incentives through Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) and other MACRA initiatives, the patient engagement landscape can be daunting. The majority of patient engagement solutions were not designed to achieve these goals, even when bundled with an EMR. However, Get Real Health’s products intuitively meets these objectives and can…
Get Real Health is pleased to announce the appointment of Christina Caraballo, Director of Healthcare Transformation, to the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee. Why is this big news? Well, the mission of the HIT Advisory Committee is to help the federal government address challenges related to health information technology. More specifically, it will provide recommendations…
First, we will deliver the bad news: Readmission rates for congestive heart failure (CHF) patients hover near 25%. The good news? A recent study chronicled in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that effectively reducing those readmission rates does not have to come at the price of compromised care. The article, addressed…
Before a contingent of esteemed federal, state and county dignitaries, Get Real Health held an official ribbon-cutting at its new offices in Rockville, Md. The expanded office space signals significant growth for the company which began with a handful of executives and employees in Montgomery County’s first Tech Incubator a decade ago. In the…
The latest spec from Health Level 7 — Fast Health Interoperability Resources, better known as FHIR — has captured the attention of the health IT community as the latest industry standard to define both interface specifications and data exchange formats for health information. As the industry demand for FHIR continues to grow, we are pleased…
