The first director of the Office of Consumer eHealth at the ONC, Lygeia Ricciardi, has announced her resignation. She will step down from her post on July 25. Ricciardi’s post focused on patient engagement during her three-and-a-half-year tenure. “There is no greater cheerleader in this country for patients using health IT than Lygeia Ricciardi. All of…
Health Datapalooza is the second largest health conference in the United States after HIMSS. Its purpose: liberating health data. This year, the annual event will be held in Washington, D.C. during the first week of June and will draw a myriad of health firms, startups, entrepreneurs, government agencies and academics from across the nation and…
Get Real Health VP of Marketing & Strategy Cortney Nicolato, CPHIT, was happy to see the recent report in FierceHealthIT on ONC’s planned changes to its workgroups (DeSalvo unveils plan to transition ONC to ‘less siloed’ workgroups, 4-10-14). “I like the changes that Dr. DeSalvo is proposing,” said Nicolato. “These committees and workgroups have provided great…
“Responsive,” “Supportive,” and “Productive” are just a few of the words David Newton, Digital Health Program Manager, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, uses to describe his company’s relationship with Get Real Health. In the video above, Newton explains that Get Real Health’s InstantPHR™ was “exactly what we were looking for” to engage their patients in their own…
With the government’s lofty goal of enrolling 15 million people in health insurance plans in the next three years, it’s no wonder that most conversations about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) center around Healthcare.gov. While the government is laser focused on getting uninsured citizens enrolled in health plans, there’s a whole other side of the ACA…
The Orange County Convention Center is the second largest convention center in the United States. The North/South Building that’s housing the HIMSS exhibition hall is 950,282 square feet – that’s 22 acres! Imagine how Cortney Nicolato, Get Real Health’s Vice President of Marketing & Strategy, feels having to cover all that territory in an orthopedic boot! Cortney suffered…
The first full day of HIMSS14 is behind us and what a day it was. Between meetings, demos, introductions, interviews and a very successful tweet-up, it was indeed “HIMSSane!” Cortney Nicolato, Vice President, Marketing & Strategy, took a few minutes out of her busy day to recap the highlights: Meetings galore: We met with clients, partners…
On behalf of the Get Real Health team, we would like to welcome Dr. Farzad Mostashari, Former ONC Director, to the Get Real Health Board of Directors. Why Get Real Health? Mostashari has three big reasons: Get Real Health’s strong international presence in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom; Usability of InstantPHR-powered portals for patients…
2013 was a banner year for Get Real Health: New partners, new clients, new capital, new hires…and not one but two trips to the White House. In this video, you can see twelve months of our biggest and brightest moments in less than two minutes! Get Real Health: A Year In Review GRH Partners with Caradigm on new…
In a moving testimonial video, two South London & Maudsley (SLaM) service users and one clinician describe the benefits they have experienced from using the mental health management application, myhealthlocker, which is powered by the award-winning InstantPHR™ patient engagement platform. Describing the online tool as “first-class,” service user John explains how his quality of life…
We are honored to announce that Get Real Health was named a winner of InTheCapital’s 50 On Fire in the Healthcare and Medicine category at last night’s awards ceremony. During a chic dinner at DC hot spot The Powerhouse in Georgetown, our staff got to mix and mingle with more than 400 hot Washingtonians to celebrate the District’s best and brightest who are…
Get Real Health couldn’t be more honored to be one of 11 innovative companies named as finalists in the 50 on Fire healthcare category by InTheCapital. Ten members of the Get Real Health team will be attending the award dinner Wednesday night at DC hot spot The Powerhouse in Georgetown to mix and mingle with other finalists in nine different industries…
