benifis patient portal

Why choose Benefis for your patient portal?

Benefis offers two easy-to-use patient portals for office visits and hospital stays. Our portals allow you to access your health record anytime, from your computer or smartphone. Our portals are convenient, time-saving tools for managing your health. Benefis Office Visit Portal Use this office visits portal to: Request prescription refills.

How do I contact Benefis Health System?

Benefis Helena Imaging 25 Medical Park Drive Helena, MT 59601 (406) 442-7227 Get directions Benefis Helena Imaging 3510 Ptarmigan Lane

Does Benefis offer online scheduling for its medical services?

Schedule an Appointment. For your convenience, we offer online scheduling for Pediatrics, Family Medicine, Women’s Health, Benefis Northwest, Internal Medicine and Same-Day Orthopedics and our Med Spa. Schedule Online Hospital visits. For questions or more information, contact us at (406) 455-5630.

Who is Benefis Medical Group?

Welcome to Benefis Hospitals Patient Portal This portal provides you with details about hospital stays and outpatient services at Benefis Hospitals. In this portal you can see your visit history, review your laboratory and X-ray results, view appointments and update personal information.

What is a patient portal?

Patient portals allow you and your office staff to quickly deliver lab tests and confirm appointments without repeated phone calls. 2. Patient portals improve communication. Messaging through a patient portal makes communication easier for both patient and doctor. 3.

Is patient portal safe?

Your office cannot simply set up a free website and expect patients to allow their medical data to be posted there! But good news: patient portals are safe.

What are the features of a patient portal?

Some of the features available on patient portals may include: 1 Direct communication with the doctor via message 2 Short video appointments 3 Medical history and records 4 Prescription ordering 5 Appointment setting 6 Bill payment (premium and for medical services) 7 Educational materials, tailored to the patient 8 Lab and diagnostic test results 9 Visit summaries and notes from the doctor 10 A record of immunizations

What are meaningful use standards?

Meaningful use standards provide minimal criteria for securing and delivering electronic health records. Although the term “meaningful use” is now outdated, the ideas behind the term are not. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the goal of meaningful use standards are as follows: 1 Improve quality, safety, efficiency, and reduce health disparities 2 Increase patient engagement 3 Improve care coordination 4 Expand population and public health 5 Ensure adequate privacy and security protection for personal health information

What is meaningful use?

Meaningful use standards provide minimal criteria for securing and delivering electronic health records. Although the term “meaningful use” is now outdated, the ideas behind the term are not. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the goal of meaningful use standards are as follows:

What is HIPAA privacy?

HIPAA privacy rules offer protections that grow with children. Parents have full access to their child’s account up to a certain age, at which point teens take control of their own health, often through a portal that makes this automatic.

Healthcare Documents

Learn how to get your medical records and what personal health documents you should have.

Your Hospital Stay

Find everything you need to know during your stay, from directions and nearby lodging for family members to identifying members of your care team, patient rights and privacy, language assistance, and more.

Visitors Information

Familiarize yourself with our campus, cafés, visiting hours, and more.

Services for Canadians

Explore our concierge services to help you get timely, streamlined healthcare.

Resources for Native Americans

Discover how we support the traditions and culture of Native American patients and their families.

Better Patient Communication

Patients are able to utilize the portal to accomplish tasks that would normally require a phone call, or even multiple phone calls.

Streamline Patient Registration and Administrative Tasks

Patient portals allow registration forms to be completed electronically prior to appointment check-in, keeping front-office work efficient.

Greater Focus on Patient Care

The ability to easily access and share patient information electronically eases one of the main distractions on physicians’ time today.

Better Patient-Physician Relationships

Patient portals provide the ability for patients to have 24-hour access to connect with their provider by reviewing patient health information (PHI), asking and answering questions, and reviewing notes, making the patient-physician relationship closer than ever.

Improve Clinical Outcomes

Patient portals make tasks such as requesting prescription refills and referrals easier and more convenient leads to greater patient compliance – and when patients follow doctors’ orders, clinical outcomes improve.

Optimize Medical Office Workflow

With a patient portal, tasks that patients would otherwise have to accomplish with staff assistance can be accomplished electronically. By giving patients online access, staff can be freed up from scheduling appointments, writing down refill needs, and answer questions about referrals.

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Now Open - Benefis Helena Northeast

Urgent care services are now available at Benefis Helena Northeast! This 5,000-square-foot facility offers urgent care services, including lab and X-ray, seven days a week.

Find a Provider at Benefis

Benefis Medical Group is a team of 308 providers who are committed to providing quality healthcare to our patients.

Classes and Events

Choose from a variety of classes, screenings, and other events to improve your health and well-being.

Patient stories are at the heart of Benefis Health System

At Benefis Health System, everything we do is centered around you – our patient. We don’t just treat your illness, we treat you, and our grateful patients’ stories reflect that. We’re not just healthcare specialists – we’re your neighbors and friends.

Benefis Foundation

You can make a powerful, lasting impact in our community and northcentral Montana by supporting Benefis Foundation. Together, we can improve health and make a difference in the lives of our families, friends, and neighbors.

Is the portal easy to use?

It’s really very easy to use. If you use the Internet, you’ll most likely find the portal helpful and easy to navigate. They found that it is particularly persuasive when providers encourage patients to use the portal because patients trust providers and value their opinions.

When did PHMG start patient portal?

PHMG launched the patient portal in early 2010. As a first step, the physician champion piloted the portal for about 6 months before it was implemented in one clinic at a time. According to the physician champion, implementation was “easier than expected because everyone was already comfortable with eClinicalWorks, ...

What are the challenges of the portal?

One major challenge with the portal is the multiple step registration process . Patients provide their e‐mail address at the front desk and are given a password to register from home. Some patients fail to complete the registration process after leaving the clinic. Remembering and managing passwords and managing family accounts are also challenging for patients. For example, a parent may log in for one child and then ask questions about a second child. For providers and staff, a challenge is that there is no way to know whether a Web‐enabled patient actually uses the portal and there are no read receipts to confirm that patients have read a message.

When did PHMG implement EHR?

In 2007 PHMG implemented an EHR system, eClinicalWorks, as part of a strategy to improve quality of care and facilitate coordination of care across its multiple clinic locations. In preparing for implementation, PHMG proceeded with:

What is the PHMG strategy?

PHMG had a strategy of ensuring that patients hear about the portal from multiple sources during each clinical visit. To execute this strategy, PHMG used several methods of communication, including:

Better Patient Communication

Streamline Patient Registration and Administrative Tasks

• Patient portals allow registration forms to be completed electronically prior to appointment check-in, keeping front-office work efficient. This means that instead of walking patients through which forms to fill out and how, your front office staff can instead focus on the patient in front of them and any questions they may need answered, ensuring ...

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