The Missing Ingredient in Today ’ s Patient Portals: Network Effects

by Vince Kuraitis and Jody Ranck As described in the first three posts in this series, today's patient portals are inherently flawed and doomed to mediocrity. The result is that today's patient portals cannot achieve a critical mass of adoption and utilization, and therefore portals can't achieve network effects. In this post, we will: Summarize key points from the first three posts in this series Explain how today's patient portals miss out on three types of network effects Explain the implications: why tomorrow's portals must be reconfigured to achieve network effects Summarizing Let's review some of the key points from the first three posts in this series. Patients would prefer one portal "home" (from the 1st post in this series): By definition, today’s portals are NOT patient-centric—they are tethered to individual provider organizations. The post The Missing Ingredient in Today’s Patient Portals: Network Effects appeared first on The Healthcare Platform Blog.
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