Demystifying eHealth

[Lindsey Karberg]

Demystifying eHealth

MEDSEEK Launches Groundbreaking eHealth Patterns Guide for Healthcare Industry

ATLANTA, March 2, 2010 – HIMSS Booth #8619 – MEDSEEK, the leading provider of healthcare enterprise portal connectivity solutions, today announced the publication of the first in a series of eHealth patterns guides, eHealth Patterns in the 21st Century: The Patient Experience.

The guide is the first of its kind and contains more than 400 distinct eHealth patterns, compiled by MEDSEEK’s consulting group from its eHealth-specific database. The database, the largest in the industry, contains current and historic Web trends for more than 775 hospitals in North America. These best practices have been analyzed, interpreted and recorded to develop eHealth patterns, defined as a reusable approach to solving a commonly-occurring problem.

The eHealth patterns – focusing exclusively on the ePatient in this edition – will help healthcare organizations prioritize, design, build and deploy high-value eHealth solutions to solve real problems and deliver solid, measurable returns on both assets and investment. These problems promise to increase in complexity and frequency as patients and physicians are becoming increasingly tech-savvy and tech-dependent, relying on the Internet, smart phones and other digital resources for information and communication.

As healthcare organizations work to demonstrate meaningful use, MEDSEEK’s eHealth patterns will provide the templates by which these organizations can begin coordinating care and engaging patients and families. “eHealth has now become the center― the linchpin― that binds the government’s healthcare reform policy together,” according to Peter Kuhn, MEDSEEK CEO. “MEDSEEK’s eHealth patterns can provide long-term economic benefits by automating manual processes and reducing errors, but it can also make our nation’s health system more patient-oriented and potentially improve our citizens’ overall quality of life.”

eHealth Patterns in the 21st Century will be available onsite at HIMSS10 in Atlanta and is also available online at www.medseek.com/epatternsguide. MEDSEEK will publish a new volume of the guide annually, each covering a different topic.

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About MEDSEEK
Since 1996, MEDSEEK has focused exclusively on eHealth and creating a better experience for constituents across the healthcare enterprise, including consumers, patients, family members, physicians, employees and payers. The eHealth ecoSystem optimizes the healthcare experience for constituents by leveraging an organization’s existing IT investments and infrastructure to facilitate secure, timely information access and exchange. From our leading content management system used by more than 775 hospitals to innovative patient portals and our award-winning clinical portal, the eHealth ecoSystem’s browser-based technology removes traditional integration and communication barriers, creating a “virtual front door” for the hospital. For more information, visit www.medseek.com or call 888.MEDSEEK.