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• Patient Portals
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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.http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/relayhealth%E2%80%99s-phr-wins-blue-button-contest, http://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=2188, http://www.relayhealth.com/news-and-
events/blog/RelayHealth-Donating-Blue-Button-For-All-Americans-Prize-to-Wounded-Warrior-Project.html
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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.http://www.iatric.com/PtAccess. Retrieved April 24, 2012.
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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.http://www.opm.gov/news/blue-
button-added-to-health-insurance-carriers-for-federal-employees,1744.asp,
http://www.opm.gov/carrier/carrier_letters/2011/2011-21.pdf, Retrieved April 24,
2012
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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
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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
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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.
[http://www.physicianspractice.com/technology/content/article/
1462168/1890621 Terry, Ken Patient Portals: Beyond Meaningful Use]
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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 e-mail messages.
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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
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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.[http://practiceportals.com/ 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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Patient portal - History
1 Patient portals have been developed to give patients better access to their information
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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.
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Patient portal - Vendors
1 Some vendors, such as Epic Systems, WEBeDoctor,https://www.WEBeDocto
r.com 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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