Our own Senior Clinical Strategist, Jennifer Dunphy, RN, BSN, OCN, CBCN joins an impressive line-up at the Health 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara, California this week. Keynote speakers such as Chelsea Clinton and Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy live up to the conference billing of “Big Names, Big Issues, Big Solutions.” Jennifer will be presenting the…
Get Real Health is proud to be a part of the MyCareManager initiative launched April 16th by HealthConnex, a subsidiary of Telstra Health. MyCareManager is an integrated eHealth product that allows caregivers to monitor clients remotely, whether in residential care, respite or in the community thereby reducing hospital readmission rates and allowing clients to keep…
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…
Congratulations to Dr. Farzad Mostashari! Get Real Health board member Dr. Farzad Mostashari is launching a new firm, Aledade, to help independent primary care physicians form accountable care organizations (ACO). The former head of the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) will receive $4.5 million from venture capital firm Venrock as startup capital. Aledade will…
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…
In an article in Hitched Magazine, “The Importance of Having a Personal Health Record,” author Robin Wiener, Get Real Health’s President and Founding Partner, writes that, “One of the most effective ways to increase patient engagement is with a personal health record (PHR). PHRs provide many benefits to those who use them, but like one’s credit rating, just…
InstantPHR™ Marketplace Direct Makes Connected Health Easy As a solo physician — or even if you’re part of a small team practice — you might secretly mutter the word “Ouch!” every time you hear about a larger provider offering patients a high-tech portal. Sure, you think to yourself, I’d love to have near real-time patient communication, electronic medical…
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…
A new report by IMS revealed that there were more than 40,000 so-called health apps available in the iTunes app store as of June 2013. But just having “cool apps” isn’t enough, says Andy Payne, Manager of European Operations, unless they aid in improving patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes. “It’s really about functionality over style.” And since nearly…
Dr. Dan Morhaim offered some constructive criticisms about electronic medical records in a September 27 Washington Post opinion piece (“An electronic medical records mess”). We couldn’t agree more with his call to provide instant access to patient medical history. As one of the companies out there developing electronic health record (EHR) systems, we understand his frustrations….
What better time than spring to announce new growth at Get Real Health? We’re branching out with new offices up on the 16th floor… “We’re truly bursting at the seams thanks to our rapid growth,” explains Get Real Health President and Founding Partner Robin Wiener. “We doubled our staff over the past year, so we…
The healthcare industry’s efforts to better manage patient populations in order to reduce readmissions for major chronic conditions took a big leap forward with Tribridge’s decision to integrate Get Real Health’s InstantPHR™ as the comprehensive patient engagement platform for its Tribridge Care Coordination™ solution. “Tribridge Care Coordination has always been a powerful, intuitive data aggregation…
