GE rolls out patient portal
Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT The Health Record Review
“Does the real key to the health IT transition lie in getting patients to take responsibility for their own healthcare?
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Using Electronic Medical Records as patient teaching tools
Sheri Ross, Technology for Doctors Online
“Healthcare providers have a unique opportunity to not only address current or anticipated health problems with their patients, but also to help patients avoid future negative health consequences by teaching them how to care for themselves. Regular reinforcement increases the likelihood that patients will adhere to the concepts being taught.
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El paciente y la historia electrónica: agitar antes de usar
Apiscam
“Tras la guerra por la puesta en marcha de los sistemas de historia clínica electrónica, que ha motivado el lanzamiento masivo y descoordinado de proyectos por parte de todos los servicios de salud, y la tardía intervención del Ministerio de Sanidad con un proyecto de historia clínica nacional
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Patients as partners in health IT
Sheryl Cash, amednews
“Like many practices, Women’s Wellness Place is continually upgrading its technology to better serve and empower providers and patients.
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Patient Portals an EHR Necessity
Ron Sterling, HITECHAnswers
“Patient portals facilitate the exchange of information between patients and physician practices. What was once considered a nice option for your EHR is becoming a necessity.
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Online portal adoption lower than expected in study of older patients
Dan Bowman, FierceHealthIT
“Researchers have called the effectiveness of web-based interventions in healthcare into question on the heels of a study showing limited use of such features by patients, according to a study published this month in the Journal of Health Communication.
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Build It, and Will They Come? Unexpected Findings From a Study on a Web-Based Intervention to Improve Colorectal Cancer Screening
Fleisher L et al, Journal of Health Communication, 17(1)
Given the extensive use of the Internet for health information, Web-based health promotion interventions are widely perceived as an effective communication channel. The authors conducted this study to determine use of a Web-based intervention intended to improve colorectal cancer screening in a population of women who are at average risk and noncompliant to current screening recommendations. The study was a randomized controlled trial designed to compare the effectiveness of colorectal cancer screening educational materials delivered using the Internet versus a printed format. In 3 years, 391 women seen for routine obstetrics/gynecology follow-up at 2 academic centers provided relevant survey information. Of these, 130 were randomized to the Web intervention.
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Designing a more user-friendly patient portal
Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR
“With an increased emphasis on patient access to their own health data, electronic health system vendors are offering patient portals to their offerings, according to an article published by the Healthcare Billing Management Association (HBMA).
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Designing a friendly patient portal for consumers
Dave Chase, KevinMD
“More and more providers see the value of providing patient portals. In an attempt to be responsive, EMR vendors are providing patient portals that have some limited capabilities (get lab results, email your doctor and possibly fill out a form requesting an appointment).
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Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust pursues paper-lite strategy with clinical portal
HealthTechWire
“Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is to implement a clinical portal to enable clinicians to access patient data from multiple core systems through a single, integrated, patient-centric view. This is part of a move towards a ‘paper light’ environment.
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Many patients taking a pass on electronic access to records
Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Nearly 56 million patients have accessed their health information on an electronic medical record system maintained by their physician, and an additional 41 million are interested in doing so, a Manhattan Research study found.
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Meaningful use and EHR: Our story
Patrick Golden, DOTmed News
“I have been practicing medicine in the Fresno, Calif. area for 24 years. In that time, I have experienced a few different ways of running my solo practice and gone from typewriters to computers, and from phone and fax to e-mail. Recently, my staff and I steered the practice through Stage 1 Meaningful Use attestation and it was a success.
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How E-Prescribing and Patient Portals Benefit Practices
Marisa Torrieri, Physicians Practice
“Changes in electronic prescribing and the development of patient portals are affecting and improving the way providers connect with patients.
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What Makes a Great Healthcare Portal
Mark Polly, Portal Solutions Blog
“All these examples are widely different applications of the concept of a portal. However, they all share one particular attribute: aggregation. All the “portals” mentioned above aggregate information from various resources and pull it together so the user can make some sense of it.
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Leeds releases portal open source code
e-Health Insider Acute
“Leeds Teaching Hospital has released the open source code related to its Opensource clinical portal after a successful development phase.
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3 Health Technologies to Watch
Gienna Shaw, HealthLeaders Media
“Healthcare organizations have checked a lot of technologies off their to-do lists.
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Patient portal receives data security and meaningful use certifications
Frank Irving, EHRWatch
“GE Healthcare announced on Oct. 5 a pair of certifications for its Centricity Patient Online 12.0 solution that will improve the portal’s capacity to deliver patient-centric service at the point of care, according to the company.
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Patient web portals to improve diabetes outcomes: a systematic review
Osborn CY et al, Current Diabetes Reports, 10(6)
Patient web portals (PWPs), defined as the integration of electronic medical records and patient health records, have been related to enhanced patient outcomes. A literature review was conducted to characterize the design and evaluation of PWPs to improve health care processes and outcomes in diabetes.
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Radboud lanceert videowebsite voor gezondheidservaringen
Mark van Dorresteijn, Zorgvisie
“Het Radboud REshape & Innovation Center, onderdeel van het UMC St Radboud, heeft afgelopen vrijdag de videowebsite Myhealthstory.me gelanceerd. Op deze site kunnen patiënten en zorgverleners video’s plaatsen over hun ervaringen met ziekte, aandoeningen, behandeling en acceptatie.
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EHRs and Beyond: Technology to Lower Overhead Costs
Marisa Torrieri, Physicians Practice
“The process of conducting and administering medical tests and getting lab results back to patients sounds easy enough. But it was anything but at Walnut Lake OB/GYN three years ago.
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