Long, slow and low: Patient portal not yet rocking the general practice world

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2018: THE WAITING GAME

Long, slow and low: Patient portal not yet rocking the general practice world

12 December 2018

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Wednesday 12 December 2018, 04:00 AM

Ministry of Health acting deputy director-general data and digital Ann-Marie Cavanagh says practices benefit most once 40 per cent of patients are registered with a portal

You can lead patients to portals, but you cannot make them link

Despite a rise in patients registering with patient portals, numbers remain low, Ministry of Health data show. After a slow start in March 2014, wh, Harry Pert , Rotorua GP Harry Pert says portal technology and interfaces have left users underwhelmed

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