The 11th Annual Connected Health Conference may have wrapped up, but our Get Real Health team found that the take-aways have true staying power. Billed as the place to see “practical technologies that empower and improve health for people, patients, and consumers,” the event did not disappoint. “There was just this buzz in the air…
While the luminaries of healthcare gathered in Orlando for HIMSS19, the CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, released two proposed rules aimed at preventing data-blocking and improving interoperability. The timing of this announcement could not have been more perfect as many of the sessions at HIMSS19 aligned with solving…
Get Real Health has established itself as an authority in the healthcare IT space. That distinction is due in large part to our secret weapon, Senior Healthcare Strategist, Christina Caraballo. Christina keeps her finger on the pulse of the policy and regulatory side of the industry thus positioning the company to meet and exceed these…
Recently Get Real Health’s Senior Healthcare Strategist, Christina Caraballo authored a blog post on the topic of Patient Generated Health Data (PGHD). Here are some highlights of the piece written at the behest of HIMSS: There is no denying that healthcare in the United States is undergoing a massive shift toward a value based model….
Because pediatric patients are not of age to consent to care and procedures, facilitating parental involvement in all medical choices is critical. Increasingly, hospital systems are leveraging technology to not only keep parents informed but to communicate with families during a hospital stay and throughout discharge and recovery as well. This technology is part of…
HIMSS16: The excitement is building Our inner geek is getting pretty psyched for all the great sessions scheduled for HIMSS16. From policy based symposiums to connectivity and security themed seminars, HIMSS has something for everyone. At HIMSS15, the focus was on the importance of patient engagement and creating patient-centered health solutions. This year, HIMSS seems…
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…
Get Real Health Senior Strategist, Christina Caraballo, has been appointed to the HIMSS Connected Patient Committee by the HIMSS national Board of Directors based on her expertise and passion for patient engagement. As a committee member, Caraballo will help raise the bar for patient engagement and empowering patients through the use of health information technology. “I’m honored…
The central Pennsylvania HIMSS office is bringing together top Meaningful Use experts from around the country to host an all-day, jam-packed workshop in York, PA. As an international non-profit organization dedicated to improving healthcare through information technology, HIMSS recognizes the need to keep health care professionals informed about the ever-changing world of meaningful use. The…
Jason Harmon, Get Real Health CTO & founding partner, demonstrated InstantPHR™ as part of the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase for attendees at the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health and HIMSS Middle East Conference & Exhibition, held April 13–14 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. “Attendees were excited to see that our solution natively supports Arabic, unlike…
Farzad Mostashari, MD, used to have mixed feelings about publicly advocating for patients in his role as a policymaker until he realized that his position as the ONC Director put him in the perfect position to do just that. For the past several years he has encouraged increased patient engagement at HIMSS by (literally) wearing…
Our HIMSS excitement really started the week before, when Farzad Mostashari, M.D., joined our board of directors. Farzad spoke movingly during HIMSS about the importance of seeing healthcare from the patient’s perspective, the need for the private sector to ‘step up’, create patient engagement tools, and his desire to view healthcare innovation globally, expanding on Get Real Health’s experience exporting InstantPHR to…
