Jason Harmon, Get Real Health’s CTO and Founding Partner, knew from past experience that his week at HIMSS14 would be incredibly hectic. As a patient with type 1 diabetes, he also knew that eating well, exercising, and checking his glucose at regular intervals still needed to happen despite his crazy schedule of meetings, demos, and…
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…
As if kicking off HIMSS14 with a fabulous reception at the Tommy Bahama Restaurant & Bar wasn’t exciting enough! President & Founding Partner Robin Wiener got to watch the ABC7 “Working Women” segment featuring none other than herself live in Orlando while it was airing back home in DC. We captured Robin’s reaction to seeing…
Get Real Health made a big impression at HIMSS14 this week. As presenters in the Interoperability Showcase, we shared how our InstantPHR™ technology can be incorporated throughout the care management process and how it seamlessly integrates with other systems. We also received a great deal of interest from the international market. Jason Harmon, CTO and Founding Partner says,…
In order to achieve effective care management and patient engagement, you must have interoperability: communication between devices and systems. Get Real Health’s Jennifer Dunphy, BSN, OCN, CBCN presented “Jane’s Journey,” the story of a pregnant woman with multiple health concerns who benefits from this connection between her medical devices and records after a car accident, at…
You follow them on social media and retweet their tweets, but have you ever had a chance to speak to them? We did! In this video, HIMSS14 top social media influencers talk about changes they’ve seen over the past year and their biggest takeaways from the conference. You’ll hear @DocWeighsIn, @HealthyThinker, @WareFLO, @OchoTex and @MandiBPro talk about…
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…
When you walk the Orange County Convention Center at HIMSS14 with former ONC Director Farzad Mostashari, M.D. you’ll do one thing — stop walking — a lot! Farzad is like Bono of the health IT world. Everyone wants to say “hi”, shake his hand and give him a hug. For him it’s like a…
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…
Jon Mertz, editor at HL7Standards.com and vice president of marketing at Corepoint Health, predicts two important things will happen after curtain goes down on HIMSS14. In the video below, Mertz, explains that when people spread the word outside the healthcare community, it will create a “multiplier effect” that will lead to greater patient engagement and better care. Stay…
Oh what a night! We kicked off HIMSS14 last night with a cocktail reception at the fabulous Tommy Bahama Restaurant. More than 100 people joined us for food, great conversation and cocktails in Get Real Health’s signature colors. What a great way to connect with partners, clients and industry leaders, including technology leaders from South…
