The document discusses how to optimize a patient portal to grow revenue, capture savings, and enhance patient engagement. It provides tips for establishing a framework driven by business and patient needs, quantifying opportunities by asking the right questions, addressing common portal shortcomings, and collecting patient reported outcomes. The document discusses strategies for increasing revenue, capturing savings through reduced no-shows and more efficient communication, and engaging patients at different activation levels including messaging, telehealth and collecting health data from patients.
HIMSS - Optimize Your Patient Portal for Patient Engagement
1. Optimize Your Patient Portal to
Grow Revenue,
Capture Savings, &
Enhance Patient Engagement
November 6, 2014
2. Establish a Framework for
Business and Patient-Driven Decisions
Quantify Your Opportunities by
Asking the Right Questions
Address Common Shortcomings
with Your Patient Portal
Collect Patient Reported Outcomes to Answer
‘What’s Best for Patient / Payor / Provider?’
3. Establish a Framework for
Business and Patient-Driven Decisions
Quantify Your Opportunities by
Asking the Right Questions
Address Common Shortcomings
with Your Patient Portal
Collect Patient Reported Outcomes to Answer
‘What’s Best for Patient / Payor / Provider?’
30. Establish a Framework for
Business and Patient-Driven Decisions
Quantify Your Opportunities by
Asking the Right Questions
Address Common Shortcomings
with Your Patient Portal
Collect Patient Reported Outcomes to Answer
‘What’s Best for Patient / Payor / Provider?’
31. How can I figure out what is the business
case for portals, beyond everyone is
implementing them, and how do I
maximize that business value?
35. Total collections through portal
Cost per collection
# of statements sent before collection
Total patient responsibility collected
36. How much of that unrecovered self-pay
revenue can we capture by optimizing the
patient self-pay experience?
37.
38. “ What counts that we
are not counting? ”
38
Chip Conley
Head of Global Hospitality
airbnb
39. “ What is the smallest
subset of the problem
we can usefully solve? ”
Paul Graham
co-founder of Y Combinator
39
40. “ What should we
stop doing? ”
Peter Drucker
management expert & author
41. Establish a Framework for
Business and Patient-Driven Decisions
Quantify Your Opportunities by
Asking the Right Questions
Address Common Shortcomings
with Your Patient Portal
Collect Patient Reported Outcomes to Answer
‘What’s Best for Patient / Payor / Provider?’
59. Establish a Framework for
Business and Patient-Driven Decisions
Quantify Your Opportunities by
Asking the Right Questions
Address Common Shortcomings
with Your Patient Portal
Collect Patient Reported Outcomes to Answer
‘What’s Best for Patient / Payor / Provider?’
60. Patient Name Patient
portal
status
Need to
distribute a
tablet?
Questionnaires
to fill out
Chris Walters Active Yes VR-12
Oswestry Form
Liz Smith Not enrolled Yes VR-12
ACL-RSI
SANE Rating Form
61. Portal, At Home 6%
Tablet, In-Clinic
94%
475
Incorporate tablets into
your go-live.
62. What's one question you're not currently asking at your
organization, but should be?
What's one specialty area your portal can help support by
engaging patients more effectively?
What’s your first step when you arrive back at work?
Takeaways
63. Establish a Framework for
Business and Patient-Driven Decisions
Quantify Your Opportunities by
Asking the Right Questions
Address Common Shortcomings with Your Patient Portal
Collect Patient Reported Outcomes to Answer
‘What’s Best for Patient / Payor / Provider?’
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