Pros: Intuit Health provides a patient portal that aims to empower patients and make medical office operations more efficient. There are many benefits that Intuit Health’s patient portal offers. Patients can easily request appointments, which in turn reduces the likelihood of no-shows. Payments can also be settled online, which minimizes the costs of printing and materials as well as increases the speed of transactions. In addition, medical office staff members are relieved of answering too many queries from patients since some of their needed information can already be found in the portal. Finally, users can be assured of the confidentiality of their personal information with Intuit Health’s top-notch security measures in place. What’s more is that the PHR is compliant with CCD and CCR criteria.

Cons: Many users have commented that they’ve had a difficult time signing up. The portal also doesn’t support popular web browsers like Google Chrome and Safari.

The Bottomline: Intuit Health’s Patient Portal provides an efficient method of communication among physicians, clinic staff members, and patients. This online solution saves both time and money for the medical office while at the same time increases the quality of patient care. It’s an interactive tool that empowers patients to increase their participation in completing personal information, scheduling appointments, getting lab results, asking questions, and paying bills.

Editor’s Rating:

Reviewed on October 18, 2011

Summary:
Intuit Health offers several Clinical Solutions to users, and one of them is a Personal Health Record (PHR). The PHR offers patients a way of communicating more efficiently with their physicians with its many features. In addition, the PHR meets the compliance criteria for electronic health records.

Features:
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Request an Appointment
Patients can easily specify the date and time of their desired appointment. This feature reduces the possibility of patients not showing up for the appointment that they themselves set. Hence, the revenues of the medical office will increase.

Fill Out Forms
Patients can already enter the information that is normally asked before each visit. Hence, this saves the medical office and the patients a lot of time and contributes to overall operational efficiency.

Prescription Renewal
This feature allows the electronic generation and transmission of prescriptions directly to a drugstore. Thus, the need to handwrite prescriptions and manually contact pharmacies is eliminated.

Ask a Question
Patients can communicate with the medical office online so that staff member’s productivity is not affected.

Online Bill Pay
This feature allows payments to be settled online, hence reducing the need to print out receipts and increasing the speed of transactions.

Security Features
Intuit Health incorporates a username/password system into its PHR, thereby securing access to all health data and personal information.