The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) recently released the Stage 3 notice of proposed rulemaking for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Records (EHRs) Incentive Programs and 2015 Edition Health IT Certification Criteria. The Stage…
Get Real Health is thrilled to be an inaugural participant in the National Association for Trusted Exchange’s (NATE) Blue Button for Consumers Trust Bundle (NBB4C) launch. What does all this industry jargon really mean? The goal of the NBB4C initiative is to make patient-mediated exchange more interoperable. Meaning that providers will be able to securely…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that they have extended the deadline for EHR attestation for Medicare eligible professionals. Organizations now have until March 20, 2015 at 11:59 to attest to meaningful use for the Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program 2014 reporting year. This is big news in the industry…
If Twitter was any indication, the 2015 ONC Annual Meeting was one buzz-worthy event. Major players from every branch of Health IT attended the event February 2-3. The result was a renewed commitment to reaching the patient and fostering communication between all those in the care circle. Interoperability was at the core of nearly every…
The advent of Personal Health Records in the primary care arena is becoming more mainstream every day. While the mental health community has been slower to adopt these solutions due to concerns or risk, confidentiality and sensitivity of information, organizations that have implemented a patient portal have found their patients to greatly benefit from them….
Get Real Health solidified its Middle East presence by exhibiting in the Orion Health Booth at HIMSS Dubai December 17th and 18th. Our representatives joined international leaders in the integrated health innovations sector in bringing the latest technology to delegates in attendance; including the InstantPHR® platform. “The ability to expand the reach of InstantPHR through…
The American Automobile Association (AAA) is predicting holiday travel this year will post its highest numbers since 2007. With all those bodies on the move, germs and sickness are bound to appear in record numbers as well. Falling ill over the holidays is unfortunate. Doing so far from home can be disastrous. While you can’t…
We’re thrilled to announce our latest product update – InstantPHR 3.4. With the newest release comes many new enhancements and updates, but what we’re most excited about is our new hybrid mobile app and overhaul of our care plans, now renamed as Self-Management Action Plans. Hybrid Mobile App The InstantPHR hybrid mobile app offers patients…
Federal Policy Front Policy is literally on FHIR! The acronym (pronounced “fire”) is HL7’s new HIT framework, Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources. The alliance behind this initiative is comprised of major industry players calling themselves the Argonaut Project. The group includes five leading EHR vendors (athenahealth, Cerner, Epic, MEDITECH and McKesson) as well as four leading…
Did you miss our webinar on best practices for recruiting and onboarding patients to your patient portal? Have no fear! We are sharing the recording because it was THAT GOOD! Those who attended heard real world feedback from two major US hospital systems, NewYork-Presbyterian and Steward Health Care, about what worked and what didn’t when…
Patient-centric alerts close ‘prevention gaps’ According to a new study in Telemedicine and e-Health, sending alerts to patients was more effective than telephone or snail mail reminders for getting patients to schedule follow-up care. The study enrolled 584 patients with high cardiovascular risk from 73 different primary care practices into an active PHR that provided…
Big HIT Changes May Be Coming Soon IDC Health Insights published their annual FutureScape predictions looking at the health information technology industry. They predict that by 2020, 80% of healthcare information will have passed through the cloud. But keep in mind, with the continued expansion of cloud computing comes an increase in cyber-attacks. IDC Health…
