Patient Portals

The Blue Button - Growth of Blue Button 1 Retrieved April 24, 2012 In October, 2011, McKesson Corporation’s Relay Health Division won VA’s Blue Button contest by adding Blue Button functions to the patient portals which it offers through its 200,000 physician and 2,000 hospital clients. yhealth%E2%80%99s-phr-wins-blue-button- contest, d=2188, events/blog/RelayHealth-Donating-Blue-Button- For-All-Americans-Prize-to-Wounded-Warrior- Project.html

The Blue Button - Growth of Blue Button 1 * Iatric Systems, Inc., a hospital-focused EHR vendor, includes the Blue Button on the patient portals of its products. Retrieved April 24,

The Blue Button - Growth of Blue Button 1 Office of Personnel Management announced that it had requested all federal employee health benefit plans to add the Blue Button function to their patient portals. added-to-health-insurance-carriers-for- federal-employees,1744.asp, 1/ pdf, Retrieved April 24,

Personal health record - EHRs, PHRs, patient portals and UHRs 1 The terms electronic health records, personal health records, and patient portals are not always used correctly

Patient portal 1 'Patient Portals' are healthcare-related web application|online applications that allow patients to interact and communicate with their healthcare providers, such as physicians and hospitals

Patient portal - Features and benefits of patient portals 1 Patient portals are also regarded as a key tool to help physicians meet meaningful use requirements in order to receive federal incentive checks, especially for providing health information to patients.[ m/technology/content/article/ / Terry, Ken Patient Portals: Beyond Meaningful Use]

Patient portal - Features and benefits of patient portals 1 Patient portals also typically allow patients to communicate directly with healthcare providers by asking questions, leaving comments, or sending messages.

Patient portal - Disadvantages 1 The major shortcoming of most patient portals is their linkage to a single health organization. If a patient uses more than one organization for healthcare, the patient normally needs to log on to each organization’s portal to access information. This results in a fragmented view of individual patient data.

Patient portal - Practice portals 1 Portal applications for individual practices typically exist in tandem with patient portals, allowing access to patient information and records, as well as schedules, payments, and messages from patients.[ Practice Portals] Most patient portals require the practice to have some type of electronic medical record or patient management system, as the patient data needs to be stored in a data repository then retrieved by the patient portal.

Patient portal - Security 1 For this reason, security has always been a top concern for the industry when dealing with the adoption of patient portals

Patient portal - History 1 Internet portal technology has been in common use since the 1990s. The financial industry has been particularly adept at using the Internet to grant individual users access to personal information. Possibly because of the strictness of HIPAA regulations, or the lack of financial incentives for the health care providers, the adoption of patient portals has lagged behind other market segments.

Patient portal - History 1 The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), in particular the HITECH Act within ARRA, sets aside approximately $19 billion for health information technology. This funding will potentially offset the costs of electronic medical record systems for practicing physicians. Because the conversion to electronic medical records is typically complex, systems often transition to patient portals first and then follow with a complete implementation of electronic medical records.

Patient portal - History 1 Patient portals have been developed to give patients better access to their information

Patient portal - Future 1 E-visits (remote use of medical services) may soon become one of the most commonly used options of patient portals. The most likely demographic for uptake of e-visits are patients who live in remote rural areas, far from clinical services. An Internet session would be much cheaper and more convenient than traveling a long distance, especially for simple questions or minor medical complaints.

Patient portal - Vendors 1 Some vendors, such as Epic Systems, WEBeDoctor, m and Cerner, offer patient portals as one module of a complete Electronic Health Record (EHR) system. Other vendors offer patient portals that can be integrated with any EHR.

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