Customer engagement is at the core of any healthcare organization’s digital strategy. With the ever-increasing expectations of patients, physicians, and their staff, an effective patient portal is a must. The growing number of electronic medical records and the increasing prevalence of smartphone use are only accelerating this trend. A patient portal is an online tool that streamlines communication between patients and their healthcare providers. It can be used to book appointments, schedule check-ups or access personal health information from anywhere with internet access.
What is a Patient Portal?
A patient portal is a website designed to streamline the patient-doctor relationship by providing patients with an online tool through which they can access their health information (e.g., medical records, lab results, appointment scheduling, etc.) and engage with their providers. Each patient portal solution is unique, depending on the needs of your practice.
Why is a patient portal important?
A patient portal is not just a fancy tool for communicating with your patients. It’s an opportunity to reimagine the patient experience, providing a complete online portal with all the functionality that patients have come to expect. A patient portal helps streamline communication between patients and their providers, providing a single source of health information. A patient portal is an online tool that streamlines communication between patients and their healthcare providers. It can be used to book appointments, schedule check-ups, or access personal health information from anywhere with internet access.
How to create a patient portal with Aegislabs
First things first. You need to figure out what kind of portal will best fit your needs. Whether it’s an enterprise-grade solution that would require significant investment or one that can be implemented with standard add-on features, the type of solution will depend on the complexity of your practice. The next step is to conduct market research to understand your practice’s needs and challenges. Once you know what’s missing, it’ll be easier to decide on the right kind of solution. Remember, you can always take a leap of faith during this phase and go with your gut feeling. Your next step is to identify a provider that can help you navigate the process of building your own patient portal.
Aegis Core platform and its key features
Aegis Core is a managed cloud and mobile platform for data management and the delivery of healthcare applications. The Aegis Core platform’s user-friendly interface enables clinicians to quickly and easily manage their day-to-day activities, including the creation and management of their patient portal. It also enables you to access comprehensive reports and analytics to better understand your practice’s operations.
Setting up the Aegis platform for your practice
On top of being a managed cloud service, Aegis Core also acts as a practice management tool. It helps you manage your administrative tasks, including billing, scheduling, and patient communication. You can use the Aegis Core platform to track patient appointments and communicate with patients, or you can use it for administrative tasks like managing financials. You can even use it for scheduling non-clinical duties, like managing office staff. As long as your practice management software supports the Aegis Health APIs, you can connect it to Aegis Core. After that, you can use the software to create patient portals using the Aegis Health APIs.
Aegis Health API and how it works with your practice’s software
Aegis Health is an application programming interface (API) that helps you create a secure and compliant patient portal. Through the Aegis Health API, you can access your practice’s medical records, create patient profiles, and manage their access to their information. This means that you can sign up patients and give them access to their medical records using their individual user names and passwords.
Conclusion
If you’re serious about embracing digital transformation in your practice, a patient portal is a must. It provides patients with one point of access to their medical information, simplifies the process of scheduling appointments and communicating with doctors, and offers a number of efficiencies. You can realize your vision for a patient portal with a powerful and secure platform, an expansive ecosystem of APIs, and a broad range of services and solutions.