Physician's Guide: Top 5 Patient Portal Software Challenges

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Physicians Guide Top 5 Patient Portal Software
Challenges

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• The good news is that patient portal adoption is
  on the rise during and after the outbreak of
  COVID-19.
• The health IT developers also remain very focused
  on creating the best patient portal software that
  is user-friendly, highly functional with advanced
  features, and especially meets the requirements
  for meaningful use stages.

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What Are The Patient Portal Challenges?
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1. Increased Workload With The Patient Portal

• As soon as started with the patient portal, the
  healthcare practices are trying to meet the
  meaning use or they wish to engage their patients
  immediately.
• This results in the physicians reworking or puts
  them into fear of increased workload with the
  postal software.

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2. Control Over Important Patient Health
Information

• Every patient feels that their health data should
  be maintained safe and secure with their
  physicians.
• So that physicians think about whether the
  patient portal is safe and secure for handling
  more sensitive patient information (healthcare
  reports).

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3. Ensuring Patient Portal Security

• Security is also a key feature that plays a
  crucial role in portal engagement, as some
  patients remain cautious of sharing information
  online.
• So the physicians are trying hard to overcome the
  patient portal privacy and security issues in the
  best ways.

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4. Technical Support For Portal Adoption

• Some portals offer only the basic features and
  some are updated with the advanced portal
  features.
• The main thing to succeed with the portal sign-up
  is to offer the right technical support for
  adopting it.
• So, offering the right guidance to patients is a
  crucial one and the way of providing technical
  support 24/7 for patient portal adoption.

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5. Achieving Interoperability

• A successful health system requires a transparent
  health IT infrastructure.
• Beyond just sharing data, the ONC predicts that
  achieving interoperability will support active
  individual health management.
• But achieving interoperability with the patient
  portal is not without its challenges.

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How Patient Portal Benefits Physicians?

• From a financial perspective, portals help
  practices to reduce administrative costs
  including payment processing, calling patients
  for appointment reminders, printing post-visit
  summaries, and more.
• From a clinical perspective, patients who are
  more engaged through the portal may have better
  health outcomes.

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Conclusion

• As healthcare technology advances and the
  industry considers some of these patient portal
  benefits and challenges, portal software will
  become a powerful tool to help patients become
  more engaged with their health.  

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