Healthcare organizations that have yet to implement a patient portal can learn from the experience of numerous other organizations, including two that were part of a recent webinar. Steward Healthcare, with 11 hospital campuses in Boston, implemented StewardCONNECT to meet the demands of patients who seek access to their health information. The patient portal is…
Robin has built an excellent company with large, international clients in the healthcare domain and has used the bootstrapping using services technique that we espouse in 1M/1M. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised, and in what kind of circumstances? Robin Wiener: I’m…
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Report: 19 million will use remote patient monitoring by 2018 Technological advances, particularly through devices that can track patient health and trigger alarm bells when significant changes occur, are designed to reduce costs associated with readmissions and extended hospitalization. A new report by Berg Insight shows that 3 million patients worldwide are connected to some form of…
Get Real Health Chief Technology Officer and Founding Partner Jason Harmon appeared on NewsChannel 8 to discuss his upcoming Diabetes Formation Flight USA 2014. He will be joining other private pilots with insulin-treated diabetes for the annual Diabetes Formation Flight on June 28th from Lincoln, Nebraska to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Jason Harmon is helping pilots…
As a CEO, how concerned are you about healthcare costs? Wherever you come down on the Affordable Care Act and other reform efforts, I’ll bet you lose as much sleep at night as I do about the effects of health — and health-related costs — on our bottom line and long-term productivity. Being in the…
Guest post by Jennifer Dunphy, clinical subject matter expert, Get Real Health. You would think Barbara must be feeling pretty glum. After all, cancer has been part of her life on and off since 1981. She is battling a recurrence of her breast cancer, on top of having had a radical mastectomy and uterine cancer. Yet,…
Adherence is the name of the game. Nothing even comes close as an effective way to reduce costs and improve health outcomes. “Studies consistently find significant cost savings and increases in effectiveness that are attributable to low-cost interventions for improving adherence,” according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Yet even in developed countries, adherence to…
Guest post by Christina Caraballo, MBA, Get Real Health. Hospitals and eligible professionals that have yet to meet their meaningful use requirements are facing a good news/bad news scenario. First the bad news: The clock is ticking, as major deadlines loom. The good news: It’s not too late to hop aboard the MU train, although some…
News Feature | March 21, 2014 Obama administration says harnessing technology, spurring health vital for making affordable care a reality While health insurance continues to get all the high-noise attention in the ongoing implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the White House reached out to business leaders this week with a parallel message: Harnessing technology…
Taken from EHR Intelligence During his time as the National Coordinator for Health IT, Dr. Farzad Mostashari had a big job to do. Not only did he have to convince physicians and hospitals that EHRs were a good idea, he also had to herd healthcare providers towards the first stages ofmeaningful use, a program that…
