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Hospitals can use the patient portal to encourage their discharged patients with chronic diseases to become more involved with their care and their medical record keeping by keeping track of their daily vitals, symptoms, and more.  In turn, the patient can allow the hospital to have access to this data by their program staff.  There are numerous reports that the patient can view and print for their provider - giving hospital providers better and more reliable information about their patient's conditions and symptoms.  This new on-going communication method can also help to significantly enhance hospital outreach programs. 

Features:

• Interfacing - the patient portal can interface directly with electronic medical records (EMRs) and the Vermont Health Information Exchange (HIE).

• Flexibility - the patient portal can optionally be set up as a stand-alone product, allowing a hospital to collect detailed patient data over time.

• Patient Snapshots - access patient information based on settings that they have allowed hospital providers access to.  This may include anything from vitals to lab tests to vaccinations and medications.  This option will provide the hospital provider with a profile of the given patient at that point in time.

• Survey Administration and Reporting - hospital providers will have the ability to create and administer surveys that patients and/or patient categories can fill out about their health and general wellness.  As surveys are completed, the hospital provider will be able to view aggregated survey results in real-time, showing the number and percentage of responses for each possible answer.

• Patient Communication - communicate back and forth with patients using an easy to use messaging system.

Filling The Gaps:

The current statewide Blueprint plan does not include health care data for home health, nursing homes, family home care, or individual patient care.  The HIE focuses primarily on the provider side of the processing, a reasonable approach considering that most of the available electronic data is, hopefully, within provider offices.  The patient portal fills in those areas where current collection of electronic data is not available.

The data would optionally flow into the HIE using a standardized layout.  The patient portal collects data that the EMR programs do not, including a patient's daily vitals, advance directives, survey results, current symptoms, and the latest medications and supplements.  Furthermore, the patient portal collects the data continuously, while EMRs and other provider-based programs only collect data when the patient physically makes a visit to a provider’s location.

Security:

Because of data sensitivity, hospital providers will only be able to view, report, and communicate with patients who have approved hospital providers.  This helps to ensure data security and HIPAA-compliance, where patient information is only made available to those individuals that patients have deemed appropriate.

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