arnabnaha wrote on Thursday, June 02, 2011:
Hello everyone!
Please take a look at the patient portal developed by zh healthcare.This patient portal can be connected with the openemr 4.0 and above despite of any fork. It has the following features
For Patients
Ask your Provider for their “Practice Id,” or search our providers list to see if your Provider is registered to use our Portal services.
If you are an existing patient and have never used the Portal you must ask your provider to give you a username and password to access the Portal.
If you are a new patient all you need is your provider’s “Practice id” and you can register your username and password.
As an enrolled patient you will access to the below given array of features:
New patient registration
Request Appointment
View your demographics, insurance and other information and make changes
Eligibility and copay verification.
Fill all forms beforehand and sign them if necessary limiting wait time
View your Medical Records including lab results and prescriptions.
View your Accounts, Ledgers and Statements
Pay your provider online
Mailbox: Communicate with your provider. Request referrals, ask for refills, or clarifications
For Providers
Connect your OpenEMR to the Portal.
Register your Practice
Decide on what features you want your patients to see under the settings tab.
Medical Records
Accounts Statements and ledgers.
Appointment reminders through Integrated Voice Response system.
Receiving payments.
Mailbox: Communicate with your patients easily and securely.
Upload your custom made PDF Forms that you need the patients to fill out.
Generate usernames and passwords and communicate to the client.
Capture patients signature electronically after they fill our your forms.
Allow patients to fill in all the demographics and profile information, custom forms et cetera from the comfort of their own personal space even before they come in for the visit.
Verify their insurance eligibly, patient responsibility and copay amounts before the visit.
You can approve or reject any of the following before you update them to you database, giving you absolute control.
New patient registrations
Changes made by existing patients
Appointment requests
Documents/Forms
The portal can be accessed at www.mydocsportal.com
the patch is not ready yet to connect the openemr withthe portal, but will be ready by this weekend.
In the meantime people can access the demo at www.mydocsportal.com using the following credentials.
Practice id-zhdemo
username- eldho
password- eldho
when this portal will be ready, it can be connected with openemr in the following way-
How to connect
Make sure your version of OpenEMR is 4.0 and above and you have updated the latest patch, or please download the patch. The patch is under testing and some fixes are undergoing for appointment and provider module. This will be available at zh healthcare website i.e www.zhservices.com
Once you have installed the latest patch navigate to menu>administration>ACL and add “Patient-Portal” to the group you want to give rights to administer the Portal Activity.
Navigate to menu>administration>Globals and select the connectors tab.
Enable the checkbox “Patient Portal” and save. Then logout and log in.
Navigate to menu>Portal Activity. The first time you select this item you will be asked to register your practice with the portal. You will have a unique user name, password, and practice id.
Go to the “settings” and make your choices as to what you want the patient to have access to on the Portal.
First time install will require you to run a generate username and password script for all your patients which you can then scurely communicate to them.
Alternatively whenever each patient calls for their username and password, go to Patient demographics and select the button “create portal login password” and the system will generate a new username and passwrd which you can convey to the patient. Make sure you click the save button. The patient will have to change this password when he logs in.
That’s it!!! Now you are ready to use the Patient Portal. Please watch the video too.