Case-Assignment: Patient Portals
Case-Assignment: Patient Portals
Case-Assignment: Patient Portals
Week 4 discussion Your Patient has a PHR (Personal Health Record)… Now What? Patient portals and personal health records (PHRs) are commonplace today. What are the pros and cons of having a PHR? What safeguards and decision-making support tools are included in patient portals and PHRs to help patients and healthcare professionals ensure safety?
A patient portal is a secure online website that gives patients convenient, 24-hour access to personal health information from anywhere with an Internet connection. Using a secure username and password, patients can view health information such as:
- Recent doctor visits
- Discharge summaries
- Medications
- Immunizations
- Allergies
- Lab results
Some patient portals also allow you to:
- Securely message your doctor
- Request prescription refills
- Schedule non-urgent appointments
- Check benefits and coverage
- Update contact information
- Make payments
- Download and complete forms
- View educational materials
With your patient portal, you can be in control of your health and care. Patient portals can also save your time, help you communicate with your doctor, and support care between visits.
For More Information
For more information on patient portals and how you can use patient portals to become more involved in your health and care, and make the most of your office visit, see the following resources.Patient portals are -related that allow to interact and communicate with their healthcare providers, such as and . Typically, portal services are available on the Internet at all hours of the day and night. Some patient portal applications exist as stand-alone and sell their services to healthcare providers. Other portal applications are integrated into the existing web site of a healthcare provider. Still others are modules added onto an existing system. What all of these services share is the ability of patients to interact with their medical information via the Internet. Currently, the lines between an , a , and a patient portal are blurring. For example, Intuit Health and Microsoft describe themselves as personal health records (PHRs), but they can interface with EMRs and communicate through the standard, displaying patient data on the Internet so it can be viewed through a patient portal.
