On Tuesday 10 October 2006 08:02, David Guest wrote: > Sounds great to me, Horst. How are you authenticating your patients? > > David
They can get a user name (= email address on our mail server) and a password during a consultation AFTER signing a consent form that explains potential confidentiality risks and their responsibilities. They have to pay $40 for that time spend explaining them the risks and setting up the user account but all pay this happily without any negative feedback. In the future, we will allow them on a opt-in basis to view their progress notes (in the new system doctors will be able to veto patient-view for individual records), their medication, their test results (after they have been checked and commented on) and reports online I did run a trial with just a few dozen patients able to view their test results online along with comments (most of them on warfarin) and they absolutely loved it! Because they have to log in to see the results we also get a log that somebody using their auth did actually look at them). Word of mouth has spread ad now there is hardly a day I don't hear requests for making this feature available to everybody Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
