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What is a patient portal?

Feb 04, 2022 · Patient portals - an online tool for your health. A patient portal is a website for your personal health care. The online tool helps you to keep track of your health care provider visits, test results, billing, prescriptions, and so on. You can also e-mail your provider questions through the portal. Many providers now offer patient portals.

What if I’m having issues logging into my Patient Portal?

Patient Portal Login. User name. Password. Forgot Password? Portal Admin Login. Remember me?

How do I make sure I am receiving patient portal emails?

Lyles C. Engaging Diverse Patients in Using an Online Patient Portal - Final Report. (Prepared by the University of California, San Francisco under Grant No. R00 HS022408). Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2019.

How do I get in touch with my provider?

This Patient Portal is provided to you by your healthcare provider as a convenient means of communication. The Patient Portal is stored on a secure server and communications with the server are encrypted. However, be aware that no encryption method …

How to access a patient portal?

With a patient portal: 1 You can access your secure personal health information and be in touch with your provider's office 24 hours a day. You do not need to wait for office hours or returned phone calls to have basic issues resolved. 2 You can access all of your personal health information from all of your providers in one place. If you have a team of providers, or see specialists regularly, they can all post results and reminders in a portal. Providers can see what other treatments and advice you are getting. This can lead to better care and better management of your medicines. 3 E-mail reminders and alerts help you to remember things like annual checkups and flu shots.

What are the benefits of a patient portal?

Expand Section. With a patient portal: You can access your secure personal health information and be in touch with your provider's office 24 hours a day . You do not need to wait for office hours or returned phone calls to have basic issues resolved. You can access all of your personal health information from all ...

How much does an e-visit cost?

For minor issues, such as a small wound or rash, you can get diagnosis and treatment options online. This saves you a trip to the provider's office. E-visits cost around $30.

1. Make portals indispensable for both staff and patients

Whitney Kennedy, M.D., heads up Highlands Health for Life, a family medicine practice in Denver that boasts an 86 percent portal adoption rate and 86 percent usage rate among its patient population, which ranges from young, active individuals to older Medicare patients.

2. Show and tell

High-performing practices find that the real sticking power for portals comes from showing patients how easy and useful these tools are with a hands-on approach.

3. Integrate the portal into each phase of the patient visit

High-performing practices train staff members on every aspect of their portal, the first step to integrate the portal into each phase of a patient's visit, from check in to check out and beyond.

4. Always improve

Despite boasting high portal adoption and usage numbers, Feingold's practice still seeks out ways to improve the scope of the tool.