“ I Don ’ t Want to Be Portal ’ d ” – The Need for Untethered Patient Portals

Always great when people who work in healthcare IT bumped into it in their own personal lives. That’s what makes this tweet from Steven Posnak so interesting: "I don't want to be portal'd"(#burn from my mom last night) An unknowingly piercing critique of her current healthcare experience in six words. — Steven Posnack (@HealthIT_Policy) March 23, 2018 For those not familiar with Steven Posnak, he’s the Director of the Office of Standards and Technology at ONC. He’s very familiar with these challenges on a policy level and now he’s gotten a first hand look on a personal level. I think most patients understand the idea of being portal’d. One great thing about Steven Posnak’s tweet was that it inspired Arien Malec to share this tweetstorm about the need for an untethered patient portal: To address this #EHR developers would have to commit to untethered portals & public #API for all current portal functions. https://t.co/xvot9YeCVO — Arien Malec (@amalec) March 23, 2018 2/ we used to have a substantive business model addressing patient access & experience cross provider — Arien Malec (@amalec) March 23, 2018 3/ biggest obstacle: Integration with #EHR If providers have to do extra work, no go. We were effectively blocked out by “large midwestern” EHR developers who were trying to build own portals — Arien Malec (@amalec) March 23, 2018 4/ tbh, we bought a small practice #EHR at MCK ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: EHR Electronic Health Record EMR Healthcare HealthCare IT Patient Portal EHR API Healthcare API Tethered Patient Portal Untethered Patient Portal Source Type: blogs