I recently came across an interview with Stephen Beck, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) at Catholic Health Partners. Dr. Beck was being interviewed on the subject of patient portals and patient engagement. Here’s a quote from that interview. “While we have...
A lot of physicians are having problems meeting Meaningful Use Stage 2, particularly the requirement which calls for 5% of patients to view/download/or transmit their online, personal health information. According to CMS and ONC, only 1 percent of eligible providers...
I hate saying I told you so. But to quote myself…"patient engagement is a physician-patient communications challenge and not an HIT (Health Information Technology) challenge." Just take a look at the Mayo Clinic’s patient portal experience which was discussed at a...