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The Blue Button - Growth of Blue Button

1 Retrieved April 24, 2012 In October, 2011, McKesson Corporation’s Relay Health Division won

VA’s Blue Button contest by adding Blue Button functions to the patient portals which it offers

through its 200,000 physician and 2,000 hospital clients.http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/relayhealth%E2%80%99s-phr-wins-blue-button-contest, http://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=2188, http://www.relayhealth.com/news-and-

events/blog/RelayHealth-Donating-Blue-Button-For-All-Americans-Prize-to-Wounded-Warrior-Project.html



1 * Iatric Systems, Inc., a hospital-focused EHR vendor, includes the

Blue Button on the patient portals of its

products.http://www.iatric.com/PtAccess. Retrieved April 24, 2012.



1 Office of Personnel Management announced that it had requested all federal employee health benefit plans to add the

Blue Button function to their patient portals.http://www.opm.gov/news/blue-

button-added-to-health-insurance-carriers-for-federal-employees,1744.asp,

http://www.opm.gov/carrier/carrier_letters/2011/2011-21.pdf, Retrieved April 24,

2012


Personal health record - EHRs, PHRs, patient portals and UHRs

1 The terms electronic health records, personal health records, and patient portals are not always used correctly


Patient portal

1 'Patient Portals' are healthcare-related web application|online

applications that allow patients to interact and communicate with their

healthcare providers, such as physicians and hospitals


Patient portal - Features and benefits of patient portals

1 Patient portals are also regarded as a key tool to help physicians meet meaningful use requirements in

order to receive federal incentive checks, especially for providing health information to patients.

[http://www.physicianspractice.com/technology/content/article/

1462168/1890621 Terry, Ken Patient Portals: Beyond Meaningful Use]


Patient portal - Features and benefits of patient portals

1 Patient portals also typically allow patients to communicate directly

with healthcare providers by asking questions, leaving comments, or

sending e-mail messages.


Patient portal - Disadvantages

1 The major shortcoming of most patient portals is their linkage to a

single health organization. If a patient uses more than one

organization for healthcare, the patient normally needs to log on to each organization’s portal to access

information. This results in a fragmented view of individual patient

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Patient portal - Practice portals

1 Portal applications for individual practices typically exist in tandem with patient portals,

allowing access to patient information and records, as well as schedules, payments, and

messages from patients.[http://practiceportals.com/ Practice

Portals] Most patient portals require the practice to have some type of electronic medical record or patient management system, as the patient

data needs to be stored in a data repository then retrieved by the patient portal.


Patient portal - Security

1 For this reason, security has always been a top concern for the industry when dealing with the adoption of

patient portals


Patient portal - History

1 Internet portal technology has been in common use since the 1990s. The

financial industry has been particularly adept at using the Internet to grant individual users access to personal

information. Possibly because of the strictness of HIPAA regulations, or the lack of financial incentives for the health care providers, the adoption of patient portals

has lagged behind other market segments.



1 The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), in particular the HITECH Act within ARRA, sets aside approximately $19

billion for health information technology. This funding will potentially offset the costs of

electronic medical record systems for practicing physicians. Because the conversion

to electronic medical records is typically complex, systems often transition to patient portals first and then follow with a complete

implementation of electronic medical records.



1 Patient portals have been developed to give patients better access to their information


Patient portal - Future

1 E-visits (remote use of medical services) may soon become one of the most commonly used options of

patient portals. The most likely demographic for uptake of e-visits

are patients who live in remote rural areas, far from clinical services. An

Internet session would be much cheaper and more convenient than traveling a long distance, especially

for simple questions or minor medical complaints.


Patient portal - Vendors

1 Some vendors, such as Epic Systems, WEBeDoctor,https://www.WEBeDocto

r.com and Cerner, offer patient portals as one module of a complete

Electronic Health Record (EHR) system. Other vendors offer patient portals that can be integrated with

any EHR.


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