Clinician and Physician Portals Update

Scott Holbrook, KLAS, Orem, UT. KLAS’ first-ever Clinical Portals Study looks at the web portals offered by HIS, CIS, Specialty and Healthcare Industry integrator vendors as solutions for giving physicians and clinicians access to inpatient and outpatient information. It looks at the difference between HIS companies and system integrators. This study also addresses the percentage of physicians using the portals; who is authorized at most participating hospitals for access; applications most frequently available over the web; the number of vendors most often interfaced to; why vendors are selected; vendors considered in the evaluations; time to implement; user satisfaction; positive and negative statements about the products; lessons learned; vendors’ estimated of potential future use of clinical portals; vendor technical and product overviews.