Allow patients to schedule their appts?

Management and Administration
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midder wrote on Monday, April 05, 2010:

Hello

Is it possible to use this system to allow patients to try and schedule their own appointments? If so, how would I go about doing that? Would it require that all patients had a username/password? Does anyone have any experience with this? Any workarounds, etc?

Thanks

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sunsetsystems wrote on Monday, April 05, 2010:

It would require some significant development work to create a patient portal.  It would be great to have someone to sponsor that.

Rod
www.sunsetsystems.com

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midder wrote on Monday, April 05, 2010:

Thanks Rod

I expected that as the response. Have you (or others) given some thought on how this might work? What would be the requirement? There are obviously a lot of things to think about with this and I was wondering if those of you who are more experienced in the system (and EMR systems in general) had already given it some thought.

Thanks again for your reply.

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sunsetsystems wrote on Tuesday, April 06, 2010:

Checking feature requests in the tracker (https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=60081&atid=493004), I don’t see it listed.  I’m not aware that anyone has given it a lot of thought yet, but this is a good place to start some discussion.

Rod
www.sunsetsystems.com

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visolveemr wrote on Thursday, April 08, 2010:

Hi,

Here are some basic requirements for the patient portal.

        * Appointment - set,view and reschedule the appointments
        * Forms - to be filled by the patients (eg: Blood pressure measurements,height/weight measurement,etc,.)
        * Message - for communication b/w physician and patient
        * Reports - viewing lab reports
        * Prescriptions - view their prescriptions
        * Sharing - sharing their records to others (once the person given permission to access)
       
Hope this helps.

Thanks,
Vicareplus Team
www.vicareplus.com

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drholmes wrote on Wednesday, April 14, 2010:

FYI: Genbook.com has a fairly sophisticated free online booking system with a button to link from a web page that I have been using for quite a few years. A more robust version has a cost per month. I would utilize an OpenEMR interface, though. Dr. Ed Holmes, a new OpenEMR user.