The American Automobile Association (AAA) is predicting holiday travel this year will post its highest numbers since 2007. With all those bodies on the move, germs and sickness are bound to appear in record numbers as well. Falling ill over the holidays is unfortunate. Doing so far from home can be disastrous. While you can’t…
Fall is typically a season of reds, oranges and yellows but it’s time to think pink this October for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. According to the American Cancer Society, breast cancer affects 1 in every 8 women in the United States. Fortunately, the ever-advancing health technology industry provides a wealth of information, tools and…
Get Real Health’s InstantPHR® helps providers to enhance patient engagement and meet secure messaging requirements. In the accompanying video, Brandon Neiswender, senior director of health information exchange at St. Luke’s University Health Network, says meeting Meaningful Use requirements is like the “first step on a long ladder to population health and wellness,” and explains how the…
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…
Population health, according to Sandy Murti, Caradigm’s VP of Partnerships and Alliances, has four main pillars: Aggregating and sharing patient data effectively Deriving insights from that data through healthcare analytics Taking action based on the insights derived Engaging patients and their families in the care process Each of these four steps is critical to improving the…
We will be so interconnected through many interoperable devices such as personal health monitors and networks that in ten years, we won’t even notice their presence, says the findings of a study conducted by Pew Research. The report posed an open-ended question to 1,600+ technology experts about the future of the Internet. The majority of…
Patient engagement is a major component of Meaningful Use Stage 2. As the first hospitals start fulfilling the requirements to meet Meaningful Use, patients will start to gain control over their healthcare information. One challenge is to educate patients on the various options available to them, how they could access their information and how to…
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…
Small clinics in rural areas cannot always afford patient engagement solutions, let alone meaningful use (MU) with large groups of people attending a small number of clinics and seeing the few doctors at their service. But it has never been easier for doctors of small clinics to engage their patients. InstantPHR Marketplace Direct™ is tackling…
With the adoption of patient engagement platforms and patient portals comes a new challenge for healthcare providers, what Brandon Neiswender, Senior Director of Health Information Exchange for St. Luke’s University Hospital Network, calls “portal sprawl.” When too many vendors offer portals targeted just to their particular services, patients have trouble keeping track of all the websites…
A new era of health IT is paving the way to a new future in patient engagement, empowering caregivers to help patients take control of their own health. Automated online healthcare systems such as Get Real Health’s InstantPHR™ helps practitioners to pull together data from multiple sources. This enables a meaningful analysis of patient information…
Get Real Health enjoyed early success by developing custom patient engagement and personal health applications for large healthcare providers until the Great Recession hit and they saw client budgets shrinking before their very eyes. With careful observation, thorough market analysis and strong leadership, CEO Mark Heaney and his team transformed Get Real Health from a…
