Michael Porter

Continuing on with the series, I want to talk about the social aspects of a patient portal.  I will freely admit that some of what I describe skirts the line of what security and privacy experts will call acceptable.  However, I think it’s possible to be social while not releasing protected health information that will […]

@ChrisCrummey is IBM social evangelist and he gives a great presentation. He shows us what an IBM’er in in the digital world A digital IBM’er is smart, social, and secure. He or she has no office, employes next generation employees, and has a more informal voice Note: IBM CIO says IBM to become the preeminent […]

@ChrisCrummey is IBM social evangelist and he gives a great presentation. He shows us what an IBM’er in in the digital world A digital IBM’er is smart, social, and secure. He or she has no office, employes next generation employees, and has a more informal voice Note: IBM CIO says IBM to become the preeminent […]

You can see my other posts on what is a Patient Portal here. While not the most complex aspect of a patient portal, personalization may well prove the most important.  When I talk to hospitals about their portals, they all speak of one thing, the need to drive people to their site and the need […]

@lizasisler pointed me to the Forbes Article on Content Marketing trends.  Jayson DeMers provides a pretty good analysis on the trends and why you should pay attention to them. I like articles like this because they focus on how important value add content from blogs, twitter, etc can drive people to your site and eventually […]

Continuing on with the series on what is a patient portal, I want to talk about integration.  This represents a large effort for any true patient portal.  By integration I mean, the effort and services necessary to pull data and complete transactions to one or more back end systems.  In other words, a patient portal […]

Today I’ll continue with a related theme to yesterday’s discussion on regulation.  Specifically, a patient portal is secure.  You can interpret security in a variety of ways but let me give my own spin. The data is secure The access point is secure Setup is secure The system will track anything that happens on the […]

So this is the first true part of what is a patient portal. I introduced it yesterday but that was only to pave the way for the topics.  Remember, my purpose is to define the complexities of a portal and not the features and functions.  So on to the subject at hand. A lot has […]

Coming up this Wednesday, Lamar talks about how they created an engaging and mobile website. You can register here.  I helped them do some initial strategy and their approach to using one site to address multiple markets was pretty interesting.  They ended up choosing Sitecore as their Digital Marketing / Web Content Management suite of […]

Coming up this Wednesday, Lamar talks about how they created an engaging and mobile website. You can register here.  I helped them do some initial strategy and their approach to using one site to address multiple markets was pretty interesting.  They ended up choosing Sitecore as their Digital Marketing / Web Content Management suite of […]

I’ve been working on a variety of portals this year but Patient Portal tops them all right now in terms of interest and effort.   I’ve learned that patient portals represent some of the most complex portal sites out there today.   They are complex for a variety of reasons.  This and my next few […]

CRN has an article about Netskope, a startup security policy firm, who reviewed and ranked enterprise cloud apps.  Here’s the quick list: Salesforce Box Crashplan Amazon Web Services Easy Vista   While some you may not have seen before, others like Amazon and Salesforce already garner many headlines.  As I review a lot of options […]