Portals Can Work But Not The Sort Of Portal Offered By The myHR! Sad That!

This appeared last week:Portals linked to lower rates of hospitalization, readmission By Joseph Goedert Published July 21 2016, 4:40pm EDTResearch still underway shows that congestive heart failure patients using a patient portal offered by a hospital or physician practice have higher engagement rates, lower hospitalization and readmission rates, and higher outpatient visit rates.Use of portals is associated with 20 percent lower hospital admissions and a similar lower rate of readmissions, said Indranil Bardhan, a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, during a session at Health Data Management ’s Healthcare Analytics Symposium in Chicago.The higher rate of outpatient visits is a positive sign, Bardhan adds. While utilization grows, patients who get more outpatient treatment are less likely to have hospitalizations or readmissions. Some 50 percent of all hospitals and 40 percent of all p hysician group practices now offer some type of portal to their patients. The portal... < br/ > < br/ > This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David. < div class="feedflare" > < a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AustralianHealthInformationTechnology?a=t7hKKJI5reM:wRvPHsR-cfs:yIl2AUoC8zA" > < img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AustralianHealthInformationTechnology?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" > < /img > < /a > < a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AustralianHealthInformationTechnology?a=t7hKKJI5reM:wRvPHsR-cfs:63t7Ie-...
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