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…
Private-sector Leaders Craft Health IT Interoperability Fix This week the nonprofit group that brings together industry leaders to discuss digital health, eHealth Initiative, proposed an interoperability roadmap that will rival the already drafted roadmap by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). The plan, which was unveiled at a conference Thursday,…
Get Real Health is excited to see InstantPHR making significant impacts in the health IT industry. Angela Witt, Health Information Exchange Analyst at St. Luke’s University Health Network, shares how they are using InstantPHR to not only get their patients involved, but their employees as well. St. Luke’s University Health Network has successfully rolled out InstantPHR…
Human API CEO on Unifying Health Data In an interview with InformationWeek, the CEO of Human API, Andrei Pop, discussed his vision to move beyond simply using APIs for health devices to including integrations with every type of health data. Get Real Health partner, Human API, is a universal health data platform that enables developers…
We are excited to announce that the Maryland Department of Commerce has invited Get Real Health to share Stand 18 in Hall 16 with them this month at the MEDICA conference in Dusseldorf, Germany. MEDICA is the largest healthcare conference in Europe and takes place from November 12-15. This year the conference will focus on…
Geisinger using Technology to Increase Patient Engagement, CEO says During an industry talk this past Thursday, CEO of Geisinger Health System, Dr. Glenn Steele Jr., announced that the company has invested in health information technology innovations to transform itself from the normal fragmented, hospital-centric model to one that actively pursues patient involvement and easy access….
