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August Newsletter
The HPS Portal and Data Integration, Part II
From the HPS Blog
 
As mentioned in our previous blog, data integration plays a huge role in a successful portal. HPS' flexibility with integration enhances clients' portals and their usability, and since we specialize in integration, HPS can pair with any system and vendor our clients choose. Outlined below are just a few of the types of systems and vendors we can integrate for you. 
Simplicity Key to Patient Portal
By: Katie Dvorak, Fierce Healthcare
 
Orderliness and clarity when designing patient portals are crucial to adoption and acceptance of the tools, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

The researchers, from the University of Texas, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Austin (Texas) Regional Clinic, examined aesthetics of portals, such as simplicity, diversity, colorfulness and craftsmanship. They then correlated those with perceived ease of use (PEU), perceived usefulness (PU) and behavioral intentions (BI).

The biggest aesthetic that lead to acceptance of the tools was simplicity of use, according to the study.

   
Data Integration woes continue for ACOs 
By: Susan D. Hall, Fierce Healthcare

Accountable care organizations report difficulty in accessing data outside the organization and data integration as their top two challenges in a new survey from the eHealth Initiative.

Though 62 percent of the 69 ACOs responding to the survey said that integrating data is getting easier in primary care--and a like percentage said so of lab results--behavioral health, long-term care and home health agencies were among the least likely to be integrated with an ACO.

   
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