Patient Portal

For many healthcare organizations, a patient portal provides a convenient way to offer patients better access to their healthcare while simultaneously helping to reduce the day-to-day administrative costs of serving patients. A patient portal allows patients to go online to handle a variety of tasks themselves, including:

• Schedule appointments
• Request prescription refills
• Access billing statements
• View lab results
• Receive health alerts and educational medical literature
• View their complete medical record
• Communicate directly with the practice and their physician(s)

By allowing patients to take care of many of these tasks themselves, patient portals can reduce demands on a practice's administrative staff, helping to cut costs and increase productivity.

Learn more about the benefits of a patient portal.

Smaller practices may choose a web based patient portal solution.

While there are a number of ways a healthcare organization can implement a portal, a web based portal offers an affordable solution for the smaller medical practice. Rather than needing to purchase a software/hardware package to implement a portal, a web based solution allows the smaller practice to forgo a capital investment and instead pay only a monthly subscription fee. A web based portal solution also requires no ongoing maintenance – upgrades and maintenance are handled by the provider – and offers a higher level of security, with patient and practice data residing at an offsite data center with advanced security features.

When seeking a leading web based patient portal solution, many smaller practices are choosing Centricity Advance from GE Healthcare.

Centricity Advance combines a portal with electronic patient records and practice management tools.

Centricity Advance is a comprehensive practice management system that integrates digitized medical records, medical practice management tools and a patient portal in one easy-to-use web based solution. With Centricity Advance there is no software to purchase or install. Instead, for an affordable monthly fee, the medical practice can:

• Offer patients online access to their healthcare data, enabling them to communicate with the practice, schedule appointments, order refills and taking more control of their healthcare needs
• Use electronic medical record software to help enhance quality of care and streamline operations. With integrated electronic medical records software patient information, medical literature and drug interaction information can be delivered to the physician at the moment of decision, enabling more informed choices and helping to coordinate care
• Manage the practice more effectively with tools to streamline operations, automate administrative tasks, improve cash flow management, and manage the revenue cycle more effectively

Learn more about Centricity Advance patient portal technology and Web based medical billing software.