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Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Current Types Of Patient Portal Education Efforts, Jennifer L. Cooper
Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Current Types Of Patient Portal Education Efforts, Jennifer L. Cooper
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Hospitals and providers participating in Meaningful Use are required to show 5% enrollment rate in their patient portals in order to receive incentive payments. The challenge with this is determining how to effectively market the portal in order to educate patients that the portal exists that also results in patients enrolling in the portal. A survey of patients was conducted at Hunt Regional Medical Center in Greenville Texas to identify how they are hearing about the patient portal and if they are signing-up as a result. While the response rate was low, the survey results did indicate what form of …
Health Information Exchanges And Patient Portals In Behavioral Health, Christine Peterson
Health Information Exchanges And Patient Portals In Behavioral Health, Christine Peterson
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We live in an electronic world. Technology is everywhere, including in our healthcare system. With the advent on the electronic health record and the push to meet Meaningful Use, many healthcare organizations have already started using patient portals and sharing information among providers via health information exchanges. There have been roadblocks to successful implantation of patient portals and health information exchanges, one of which is how to handle behavioral health information and would these new technologies be accepted by patients with mental health diagnoses
The Impact Of Patient Portals On Release Of Information Requests, April Insco
The Impact Of Patient Portals On Release Of Information Requests, April Insco
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Patient portals are no longer a thing of the past. The government has issued a mandate that all covered entities who are reimbursed under Medicare payments must implement patient portals as a part of the Meaningful Use initiative or suffer penalties. The objective of this study is to review the data to see if there is a decrease in the number of release of information (ROI) requests at facilities that have implemented patient portals. A survey was conducted to determine if there was any change in the number of ROI requests that facilities received prior to implementation of patient portal …