After suffering tremendous backlash regarding the timeline for implementing Meaningful Use Stage 3 standards, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released its final ruling on Tuesday, October 6th. The overarching goal of the revised ruling was to increase flexibility for providers while simplifying…
It is one of our favorite times of the year; National Health IT Week! Kicking off on October 4th, it is a week filled with events, panels, webinars, and activities surrounding healthcare information technology. One of the events includes the annual Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Public Policy Summit. The “Congressional Asks” are a part…
In this video, Robin Wiener, President of Get Real Health shares insights on how our InstantPHR platform helps physicians. Robin: “For the first time, the doctor is going to get all the information from all the different EMRs we’re siloing. By pulling it all together the doctors can get a complete look, so if I’m…
National Health IT Week kicks off this week and we look forward to being part of the conversation shaping the future of health IT in the United States. With our mission of connecting patients and providers through technology, we are a proud partner of this event that raises awareness and puts health IT at the…
Our own Senior Clinical Strategist, Jennifer Dunphy, RN, BSN, OCN, CBCN joins an impressive line-up at the Health 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara, California this week. Keynote speakers such as Chelsea Clinton and Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy live up to the conference billing of “Big Names, Big Issues, Big Solutions.” Jennifer will be presenting the…
Our second annual InstantPHR User Group conference was an overwhelming success—not only for us as a company but for our clients and partners as well. Nothing makes us happier than providing a platform for our clients and partners to network and share their experiences amongst one another. This year we had attendees come from all over…
Are you drowning in Back to School paper? Shuttling forms back and forth between the doctor’s office and school? A patient portal is your virtual life line. With immunizations, appointment and condition records at your fingertips, the onslaught of paper is not so daunting. One of the great benefits of using a patient portal like…
Get Real Health has been a champion of the Blue Button initiative as its mission mirrors ours in that it allows patients to securely access electronic health information. What gets us excited is the Blue Button initiative’s goal for patients to not only access health information online, but also to aggregate health data from multiple…
At a Senate Committee hearing on Capitol Hill yesterday, there was a lot of talk about “information blocking” among EHR vendors and how true interoperability can’t be achieved until all EHRs can easily send patient data outside of their own proprietary systems. Get Real Health has confronted this problem for years. The concerns we heard…
Through its “Champions of Change” program, the White House honors individuals who are inspiring and empowering others in their community through extraordinary works. Earlier this year, President Obama launched his Precision Medicine Initiative. The initiative enables a new era of medicine; focusing on research and technology that empower patients, researchers and providers to work together…
As if Health Datapalooza was not already packed with headline news, ex-ONC head Farzad Mostashari ratcheted up the excitement level by launching Data Independence Day. That’s right, Data Independence Day. Mostashari, a Get Real Health board member, is spearheading a grass roots effort, Get My Health Data, to free up access to health data for…
Patient portal recruitment and retention are common hurdles across the field of connected health. Our client and InstantPHR user, Immune Deficiency Foundation (IDF), has met this challenge head on. Through webinars, mailings, emails, social media updates as well as portal enhancements, content updates and incorporating user feedback, IDF has posted impressive usage numbers. More importantly,…
