One of the best ways to get people to do anything is to offer some type of incentive for their participation. Find an incentive that makes sense for your practice. It could be a percentage off a frame purchase for every patient who interacts with their portal. Or, you could hold a drawi...
How to optimize your patient portalAndrea Downing Peck
Apatient portalor apersonal health record (PHR)is a secure application that allows patients to access their personal health information (PHI). That’s a short version of a definition. Additionally, a portal has the potential to be a place for addressing all types of healthcare needs, being l...
A patient portal is a website which offers patients convenient, 24 by 7 access to personal health information irrespective geographic location with an Internet connection. Patient portals have various features like patients can conveniently access appointment requests, get to know the authentic ...
3 Ways to Connect with Patients Using a Patient Portal Send Secure Messages There is a lot of information that your patients want to know about their health, diagnosis, and treatment. Questions that they may have wanted to ask during the exam but were too timid or maybe didn’t think of ...
A portal like this will enable your patients to interact with your practice, review their treatment plan, update insurance info, pay open patient balances, schedule appointments with your office, receive lab results, request refills, get referrals, or easily cancel or reschedule appointments so that...
If building a portal itself isn’t enough, what can you do to make a patient portal work for your practice and your patients? Start with providing high-quality, relevant patient education materials that are easy to understand. Internet-based programs that interface with EHRs can put state-of-...
Connecting the provider was easy to set up. I noticed, however, that no records from the provider were showing up after around April 2021. I checked with my provider and discovered that they changed their patient portal over the summer and it now has a new web address. How can I get ...
regulations and rising patient expectations by adopting different clinical, financial, and EHR systems. But this has created a patchwork of technologies that don’t communicate with each other. Data is trapped across disparate systems, which makes it hard to get a complete view of the patient. ...
That begs the question: should patients have a PHR or use the patient portal? There are pros and cons to both, per the Mayo Clinic article. “A PHR that is tied to an EHR is called a patient portal,” the Mayo Clinic explains on its website. “In some but not all cases ...