Tagged with: Patient portals
TagNightingale Informatix – Secure Patient Portal
The Secure Patient Portal is a web-based application that lets patients schedule their own appointments based on the doctor’s preset parameters. The system also allows patients to fill out medical questionnaires prior to appointments. Using the patient portal, a provider can send the patient automated reminders, clinic hours, lab results with doctor comments, and prescriptions … Read More
Orion Health – Concerto Clinical Portal
Providing a unified view of a healthcare organization’s records through a single user login, the Concerto Clinical Portal provides access to patient history, lab results, and medical images. Working with your previous infrastructure, Orion Health’s web-based system allows access to medical records using any web browser. Future upgrades and integration with custom applications is simple … Read More
Portals help University of Chicago Medical Center keep patients in the know
As most hospitals struggle to keep patients informed of their treatment plans, the University of Chicago Medical Center is using portal software, in conjunction with its Epic EHR system running on Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series Servers with Oracle Solaris, to keep patients in the know.
Patient portals provide near-real-time access to medical records – if clinicians actually input the data first
Among the requirements for Stage 1 meaningful use, hospitals and physicians must provide more than half of their patients with electronic patient data within three business days of the request. That may sound reasonable, but it’s a big change for most healthcare providers. Currently, under HIPAA guidelines, doctors have a month to respond to patient-medical-record … Read More
Electronic informed consent apps help educate patients
Interesting story from the AP on computer-based informed consent programs.


