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 […]
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2: A Patient Portal Is Secure
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 […]
1: A Patient Portal Is Regulated
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 […]
What is a Patient Portal?
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 […]
Sustaining Hospital Service Lines
“Sustaining a broad portfolio of service lines may no longer be a viable option for hospitals and health systems”. 1 According to HFMA’s recent financial planning newsletter, discussing the viability of a service line can be difficult for healthcare executives, board members and clinical leaders. The article encourages an analysis many metrics that need to […]
XBox in Healthcare?
Obviously there’s a lot of excitement going on with the upcoming release of Xbox One. Ryan Duclos has a new post out about it’s potential outside of gaming and entertainment which frankly is where my mind lies as well. In my portal world, I seem to spend about 50% of my time with healthcare clients […]
ZDNet Highlights Perficient’s Cloud and Healthcare Expertise
It was exciting to read Heather Clancy‘s post on ZDNet.com this morning, ‘Perficient’s Cloud Prescription for Healthcare Companies‘ highlighting Perficient’s Cloud & Healthcare expertise. From Heather’s post, which can be read here [Perficient] was named in July as both the software developer’s U.S. Partner of the Year and also as [Microsoft’s] top provider for delivering healthcare […]
Cognos Version 8-8.4 No Longer Supported! Now What?
Effective September 30th If your organization is currently running IBM Cognos Software version 8.0-8.4 these versions will soon be retired and no longer maintained by IBM. This means your production issues and bug fixes will no longer be supported for these following versions: Cognos Business Intelligence V8.4.1 Cognos Data Manager V8.4.1 Cognos Business Intelligence Analysis […]
Using Cognos Analytics to Improve Quality of Healthcare
The healthcare industry pressures and technology maturity are starting to converge, and as they do the organizations that are equipped to capture data, integrate and analyze it from multiple systems will be able to generate greater insights that will drive a shift from volume-based to value-driven healthcare that improves consumer engagement and care delivery. IBM […]
Avoid Cloud HIPAA Breaches like OHSU’s with Azure or Office 365
Healthcare IT News’ Erin McCann recently reported that Oregon Health & Science University had to again notify patients that their protected health information had been compromised. From Erin’s post The Oregon Health & Science University has notified 3,044 patients that their protected health information has been compromised after several residents and physicians-in-training inappropriately used Google […]
Do EMRs Provide Enough Data to Drive Insights in Healthcare?
Many argue that it remains to be seen if EMR initiatives will live up to the promise of improving healthcare. While technology is making an impact on the industry other forces are rapidly creating unprecedented disruption, uncertainty and risk within the healthcare industry. Federal mandates for reporting quality and outcomes are accelerating this change and […]
Microsoft Surface Impresses Doctors, Improves Patient Care
Over on the Perficient Healthcare IT blog, my colleague Jamie Churchill had a great post this morning around the tablet battle in healthcare. From her blog post, which you can read here, Jamie shares: I came across an article this morning about the growing trend of doctors using tablets in healthcare – specifically the Microsoft […]