hixney patient portal

What is the hixny patient portal?

The Hixny patient portal and MyChart allow your doctor to view and share information like medication history and test results. Accurate, up-to-date information leads to fewer repeated tests, lowers risk of mistakes, easier second opinions and less chance of drug interactions. What is a patient portal? Why is using a patient portal important?

What is the difference between hixny patient portal and MyChart?

The Hixny Patient Portal and MyChart allow you to access your personal health information and medical records any time day or night. MyChart joins Hixny as your portal to more connected, convenient, and secure health care.

How do I access my hixny health information?

When you get home you may visit Patient.Hixny.com, log into the portal and access your health information. If you have an email address, we recommend you update your account using your own email address.

What is the patient portal?

Saratoga Hospital’s Patient Portal is a secure patient portal that allows read-only access to your medical information.

What is the Hixny Patient Portal?

The Hixny Patient Portal and MyChart allow you to access your personal health information and medical records any time day or night.

What is the Hixny portal?

The Hixny patient portal and MyChart allow your doctor to view and share information like medication history and test results. Accurate, up-to-date information leads to fewer repeated tests, lowers risk of mistakes, easier second opinions and less chance of drug interactions.

Why is it important to access your medical records?

Accessing your personal medical records through a patient portal can help you be more actively involved in your own health care. Accessing your family members’ health information, with permission, can help you take care of them more easily.

What is a hixny?

Hixny is available online or connected directly to most providers’ electronic health records systems.

What is Hixny analytics?

Hixny is healthcare data that makes sense. Hixny’s analytics and insights help identify trends, improve diagnostic accuracy and ensure better care for everyone in our region, at every level. We stand at the forefront of today’s evolution toward efficient, high-quality, value-based, patient-centered care.

How many people use Hixny?

In real time, we deliver the highest quality health data available. More than 6,900 clinical users in our region share as many as 5 million individuals’ health records through Hixny, while hundreds of thousands of people use Hixny to view and share their own records. Patients and healthcare professionals rely on Hixny data to improve patient care and reduce costs every day.

Where is Hixny located?

Hixny is eastern New York and beyond. In 1999, healthcare collaborators and competitors came together to improve care in the greater Capital Region following the introduction of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Through mergers, expansions and restructurings, Hixny has become one of ...

Can Hixny help with HEDIS 2021?

Alternatively, if you are a provider who would like to work toward a “passing” status on primary source verification for HEDIS ® MY 2021 reporting , Hixny can work with your staff to improve data quality and help position you to pass next year by providing mock primary source verification, assessing workflow and supporting quality improvement efforts. Please contact us to speak to our consultant about your specific situation.

Is Hixny secure?

Hixny is highly secure. Our enterprise-grade systems are protected by the same technology, protocols and systems used by the military, law enforcement and leading financial institutions. They are consistently and independently audited, evaluated and enhanced.

Does Hixny have an annual validation?

Please note that Hixny must also go through an annual validation process and the current Validated with Exception status only applies to HEDIS® MY 2020 reporting.

What is MEDENT portal?

The MEDENT portal is a secure website utilized by our Saratoga Hospital Medical Group primary care and specialty physician practices. We offer three MEDENT portals, each of which allows you to view your medical information from your doctor’s office, including your labs, appointments, diagnosis, and also allows you to request prescription refills and view or cancel scheduled appointments.

What is the Saratoga Hospital Patient Portal?

Saratoga Hospital Patient Portal is a secure online health management tool that allows you to view your inpatient and outpatient medical information. Our patient portal link directs you to a secure website created by HIXNY (Health Information Exchange of New York), where you can securely access and view your medical records online from anywhere. Here, you may access your records from any participating hospital or provider, including Saratoga Hospital.

What is the Patient Portal for Saratoga OB?

The Saratoga OB/GYN at Myrtle Street Patient Portal is a secure online health management tool that allows you to view your medical information from your doctor’s office within this practice.

Does Saratoga Hospital have HIPAA?

Saratoga Hospital takes the privacy of patient medical records and the security of personal information very seriously, with strict adherence to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) laws and regulations.

Is Saratoga Hospital secure?

Saratoga Hospital and Saratoga Hospital Medical Group participate in secure patient portal websites that serve two main purposes: to provide you secure access to your own medical records and to provide you a secure, online payment option for most of your medical bills. (You may receive billing from external sources, such as external labs.)

How to contact HIXNY?

If you were not enrolled in the HIXNY patient portal during your registration process and would like access, please contact our Health Information Management Department at 518-897-2520 or PatientPortal@adirondackhealth.org.

What is HIXNY in medical?

You may choose to sign up for the Health Information Exchange (HIXNY), which means that, with your permission, a doctor may share your important health information with other doctors within the exchange region. Prior to health information exchanges, your doctor's office shared this information by mail, fax, or phone, which took time and sometimes doctors did not get all the information they needed.

What is Adirondack Health?

Adirondack Health participates in a collaboration of health plans, hospitals, physician practices and other entities in a 17-county geography comprising the Capitol Region and northern New York, known as the Health Information Exchange of New York (HIXNY). The Health Information Exchange is different from the Health Insurance Exchanges that are being set up as part of the Affordable Care Act.

What is the Health Information Management Department?

The Health Information Management department provides timely, secure and responsive access to your personal medical records and is responsible for storage and retrieval of patient health information across the Adirondack Health organization including:

How long does Adirondack Health keep medical records?

Adirondack Health only keeps medical records on file for the past seven years

How to get a copy of medical records?

To obtain a copy of a medical record, please submit a valid authorization form, signed and dated by the patient or legal guardian. To obtain an authorization form, please click here or call us at (518) 897-2520.

What is the function of health information management?

Health Information Management is organized into specific functions, which include: Release of Information, Record Processing, Coding, Dictation and Transcription, Privacy Concerns (HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act), and Tumor Registry.