Don’t Let Atrial Fibrillation Be a Scrooge this Holiday Season December 3, 2018Amanda Wright Manage Stress and Keep Symptoms at Bay Managing a chronic condition can be a daunting task during the frenzied pace of the holidays. However, for patients suffering from Atrial Fibrillation (Afib) keeping triggers at bay could be a matter of life […]
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New Diabetes Treatment Guidelines Align with Get Real Product Features November 8, 2018Amanda Wright This year, The American Diabetes Association updated the Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes and what was number one on the list of improvements? Technology. The new guidelines “suggest that as technology advances, so too does our ability to manage diabetes.” […]
Ellie An Efficient Hypertension Management Tool October 17, 2018Amanda Wright Managing Hypertension is a full-time job. And a job that falls to the patient 95% of the time. It’s not that doctors are not doing their job; quite the contrary. It is more that office visits occur in a small percentage of any given year, […]
Palliative Care Increasingly Important Part of Today’s Healthcare Landscape October 2, 2018Amanda Wright “Why should you have to be dying to have somebody focus on your quality of life?” These words from Sean Morrison, M.D., director of the National Palliative Care Research Center, are at the heart of Get Real Health’s approach to Palliative Care […]
The Key is Connecting COPD Patients to Their Care Between Appointments September 11, 2018Amanda Wright When helping patients manage a chronic illness like Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), the best way to keep symptoms at bay is to work with them to devise an effective care plan of tasks and medicines. Sounds simple, right? It […]
Improving Readmission Rates for Congestive Heart Failure Patients July 27, 2018Amanda Wright First, we will deliver the bad news: Readmission rates for congestive heart failure (CHF) patients hover near 25%. The good news? A recent study chronicled in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that effectively reducing those readmission rates does not […]
Millennials and the Drive for Telehealth April 23, 2018Amanda Wright In a recent blog, we outlined the reasons senior citizens are increasingly asking for greater access to their health data outside of practitioner visits. Well, it turns out that our seniors are not alone in this desire to better self-manage their health. A recent study, […]
Seniors Desire Improved Access to their Healthcare March 29, 2018Amanda Wright Senior citizens are joining the ranks of their younger counterparts and looking to technology to assist in improving their lives. According to a new survey, seniors are no longer technology skeptics, in particular when it comes to healthcare. In fact, an overwhelming number, roughly […]
Seniors Desire Improved Access to their Healthcare March 29, 2018Amanda Wright Senior citizens are joining the ranks of their younger counterparts and looking to technology to assist in improving their lives. According to a new survey, seniors are no longer technology skeptics, in particular when it comes to healthcare. In fact, an overwhelming number, roughly […]
