Enterprise Portals — Give the Healthcare Practitioners You Support Access to the Data They Need to Improve Patient Care and Manage their Careers

Despite the economic downturn, healthcare organizations like yours are looking at strategic ways to plan and prioritize their information management. This includes exploring technology that can ensure better data management and facilitate easier, more secure access and information sharing of patient information via electronic medical record (EMR) systems. And IT teams inside healthcare organizations are looking to enterprise portals to make this information immediately available for patient care and medical services.

You may be concerned about how to best facilitate access to electronic patient records, while maintaining adequate privacy protection in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), as well as many state-specific privacy laws. Logicalis can help.

We recognize that controlled portal access and lock-down security are must-have functionalities, and we can show you ways to ensure that only authorized parties can access private information.

Healthcare IT professionals responded in a recent study by Televerde Research that the benefits respondents hoped to achieve by investing in Enterprise Portals and closely linked Business Intelligence were as follows:

• Realizing efficiency and cost savings
• Expedite data availability
• Greater flexibility
• Ability to data mine patient chart progress

Customizable portals can be developed for the following:
Patients
Patients want to know that they are selecting a quality healthcare provider; they are looking for better, quicker, and more accurate information about your outcomes, ED wait times, and specializations. Many patients want to be able to pre-register or allow family members to get updates on the patients' status over the Internet. A portal provides a choice on how to interact with your organization. A portal creates a unique, personalized experience every time a patient visits your Web site. If you can make your site more interesting and useful with targeted content and enhanced services, you can improve patient satisfaction.

Physicians
Attracting top surgeons and specialists is a critical success factor for any healthcare organization. Physician portals allow physicians to view laboratory and radiology results, EKG studies, cardiology and other images, transcriptions, vitals, progress reports, and much more. A personalized portal can offer notes and links to Internet applications and content, such as medical news and reference information.

Employees and Administrators
Making your employees job easier results in higher retention and employee satisfaction. Portals allow your employees to have convenient access to all information related to their jobs. Nurses can keep up with schedules, continuing education and benefits. Accounting can view a patient’s last billing or payer reimbursement, see open orders and check the latest correspondence from a personalized page. Management can view results, trends, and progress of their departments. Human resources can give employees secure, self-service access to all of their benefits, including insurance, payroll, and tax information. As your workplace grows and becomes more distributed, or as you need to connect to new business areas, you can leverage a portal's collaboration and communications tools and give your entire team instant access to the people and information team members need with instant messaging, Web conferences, group calendars and other features.

Suppliers
Portals can help you provide your business partners with pertinent, timely information, like contract pricing, terms and conditions, and inventory levels. You can also integrate with systems from other vendors, which allows you to reduce costs and eliminate duplication of effort to increase operating efficiencies.

Contact your Logicalis Rep who is ready to help you build your business case.