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Launching a Patient Portal: Best Practices and Lessons Learned at Main Line Health!
In implementing its patient portal, Main Line Health’s goal was to
create a one-stop portal for the entire health system. With four
acute-care hospitals, several outpatient facilities, a physical medicine
and rehab hospital and a drug and alcohol treatment center, Main Line
Health needed a solution that could quickly relay information from
multiple points of care to thousands of patients. Read More
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Ethics and HIT
Challenges...
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
- patient safety should trump all other values; corporate concerns about liability and intellectual property ownership may be valid but should not over-ride all other considerations;
- transparency and a commitment to patient safety should govern vendor contracts;
- institutions are duty-bound to provide ethics education to purchasers and users, and should commit publicly to standards of corporate conduct; and
- vendors, system purchasers, and users should encourage and assist in each others’ efforts to adopt best practices.