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This appeared last week:More than 1.3 million GP appointments booked onlineMonday, 28 May 2018  eHealthNews editor Rebecca McBethMore than 1.3 million GP appointments have been booked online via a patient portal in New Zealand.More than 400,000 repeat prescriptions have also been ordered electronically, saving patients a phone call or visit to their GP.Figures gathered by eHealthNews from New Zealand ’s three main patient portal providers reveal that patients are increasingly using digital services to communicate with their GP practice.Around 550,000 of New Zealand’s 4.5 million patients (12 per cent) are registered with a patient portal and 545 practices offer one. A patient portal is a sec ure online site where patients can access their health information and interact with their GP.ConnectMed provides a patient portal to 125 practices and says more than one million patient appointments have been booked electronically via the service.ConnectMed co-founder Ryan Thatcher says... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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