Get Real Health’s Senior Healthcare Strategist, Christina Caraballo, had the opportunity to testify before Federal Advisory Committees’ Interoperability Experience Task Force on Friday, May 13th. The topic of her speech was the evolution of the patient engagement landscape and what the industry’s focus should be today and in the future. Her testimony honed in on…
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…
After suffering tremendous backlash regarding the timeline for implementing Meaningful Use Stage 3 standards, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released its final ruling on Tuesday, October 6th. The overarching goal of the revised ruling was to increase flexibility for providers while simplifying…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid is giving the healthcare industry the chance to comment on a proposed change to MU patient engagement requirements that have sent shockwaves through the industry. If accepted, instead of requiring providers to get 5 percent of their patients to view, download and transmit their health data, the proposed rule change…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) recently released the Stage 3 notice of proposed rulemaking for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Records (EHRs) Incentive Programs and 2015 Edition Health IT Certification Criteria. The Stage…
Obstacles Facing Interoperability Discussed at ONC Hearing This past Friday at the ONC’s Health IT Policy Committee’s Interoperability and Health Information Exchange Workgroup Governance Subgroup hearing, provider and vendor panelists shared their thoughts on the challenges facing healthcare interoperability as well as potential solutions for these obstacles. Echoing the AHA’s position, most participants testified that…
“Interoperability” was the topic of the day, as government officials, patients, and private sector providers participated in a hearing to discuss the challenges of health information exchange. The hearing was sponsored by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) as part of the Health IT Policy Committee’s Interoperability & Health Exchange Workgroup – Governance…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The decision by CMS and ONC to extend Stage 2 timelines through 2016 was a positive and timely step that will help many providers. “This certainly is good news for those who needed additional time,” said Robin Wiener, Get Real Health president and founding partner. “But we’re also glad they didn’t delay the start of…
