Health Care Portals: Looking Beyond the Patients ’ Horizon

This article addresses the entirety of the patient experience, and its interdependence with the staff experience. Technology has the potential to improve both simultaneously. Vendors Help Create a Future athenahealth has copious uses besides the ones mentioned in the previous article. athenahealth’s integrations with hospital EHR systems allow the platform to receive discharge instructions when a patient leaves a hospital. From there, athenahealth can trigger workflows such as contacting a patient to make sure they schedule a follow-up visit, or reminding the patient to make a payment. The previous article also introduced a platform from Weave that handles common patient engagement tasks automatically. An advanced feature mentioned by Branden Neish, Chief Product Officer, was flexible text communication. A patient can request a chat on a laptop and move it to a mobile device or vice versa. The patient is warned to be careful if they choose a channel that is not encrypted, such as standard text messaging systems on mobile phones. Weave can also send a bill in a text message, making it easy for the patient to pay on their phone. Often, the phone has recorded credit card information and can populate a form so that the patient doesn’t have to enter the numbers manually. Skyscape offers a unified platform called Buzz for communications in text, voice, and video, used both between clinicians and for clinician/patient exchanges. Buzz works on both desktops and mobile dev...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring athenahealth Azalea Health Brandon Neish Bu Source Type: blogs