If you are a medical practice trying to meet meaningful use and are wondering how a patient portal fits in to the picture, this is the blog post you have been waiting for! A Quick Overview of Meaningful Use The 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act authorized the US government to spend billions of dollars [...]
Patient Portal and Online Registration: How Practices Do It Today
by Josh Padnick on January 26th, 2011
When I meet with medical practices or large groups about their patient portal, I’m always amazed that it’s usually “one big thing” that drives their interest in the patient portal. This morning I spoke with a 14-physician orthopaedic group that was interested primarily in using the patient portal as a marketing tool. Their “one big [...]
One of the most striking points of confusion I’ve encountered is understanding the relationship between your website — often called a medical practice website — and your patient portal. My goal for this blog post is to officially set the record straight. Your Website Your website is pretty much what you think of when someone [...]