IGI’s ORBIT® Patient Portal is the optimum solution for achieving a uniform system which makes all appropriate health information and medical records available and accessible to a patient, while also enabling the patient and the patient’s family to collaborate with the patient’s care team.

Following are the salient features of the Patient Portal.

Mobile Applications

As one of the primary goals of the Orbit Patient Portal is to have the patient and the patient’s family as engaged as possible in the patient’s collaborative care, we also will make available to the your community the growing number of Patient Portal mobile apps (Apple and Android). Currently, the mobile app functionality includes:

  • Log-in and user registration
  • Patient profile, including clinical, administrative, and social details
  • HealthTracker: Track BMI, cholesterol, blood pressure, etc.
  • Add a Provider


Configuration and Customization

Portal Administrator

Administrators can configure the Patient Portal look and feel across populations of patients, tailoring what certain groups of patients see when they log into the Portal. Administrators also set the roles and rules for patient types. For example, a certain group of patients would see the logo and the color schema of one hospital when they log in, another group would see a different look and feel. Administrators also set rules on what data from what hospitals get sent to what patient groups, etc.

  • Application design is based on Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)
  • Color, fonts, icons can be customized
  • Display of order of Menus can be configured by account admin and can vary for each user
  • Header and Footer section of application can be customized. Header section of application has place holder for logo and can be used for placing client logos
  • Admin portal helps to manage Account, Provider and User setup.
  • All Menus in the application can be accessed by defining Roles and Role-Menu relationships.

Patients

Patients can configure the Patient Portal to better suit their unique needs. For example, changing font size, uploading a new picture, adding new links, and changing vital signs that display on the Dashboard.

Interoperability with HIEs

If you have a Health Information Exchange (HIE) in place, we will interface with it, allowing for the secure, standards-based exchange of wide variety of data types and documents such as lab results, meds, allergies, secure messaging, discharge summaries, problem lists, referrals, plus a large number of additional data and document types, to and from the Patient Portal

Dashboard

The ‘Dashboard’ is a summary page that shows the patient the most important information to manage care. The following are the main features:

  • The user can see a summary of vital health statistics
  • The health statistics shown on the Summary page are customizable
  • Reminders of appointments within the next seven days are displayed
  • User can add/remove Favorite web sites for quick access
  • Send and receive secure messages from members of the patient’s care team (also see “Message Center”)

Patient Profile

Patient Profile information includes the key consumer attributes. Information maintained in this module include:

  • Personal demographic information
  • Contact information for emergency
  • Physicians and other members of the care team
  • Pharmacies that are frequently used for medications
  • Insurance carriers with plan information
  • Social history logged with date and time stamps
  • Family health history information
  • Legal Documents such as Consent, Advance Directives, etc
  • Access Sharing to grant consent to others for a specified time interval

Health Tracker

This module is used for maintaining data about the following key health parameters. The data is shown in Grid format as well as charts (Bar Graphs, Line Charts). For example:

  • Weight
  • Blood Pressure
  • Blood Glucose
  • Cholesterol
  • Hours of Sleep
  • Calorie Intake

Calendar Reminder and Alerts

Alerts and Reminders can be sent by a provider or member of the provider’s staff, hospital, and other members of the care team. In addition, Reminders and Alerts can be generated to fire automatically, triggered by an event or other rule-based item.

  • Appointment follow-up
  • Patient education
  • Test result out of range alert
  • Public Health alert

Medical Care and Medication

The patient can view data related to their medical conditions. This information can come from a variety of sources: Hospital, provider, care manager, etc.

  • Medical Conditions
  • Hospital Visits
  • Procedures & Surgeries
  • Hospitalizations
  • Lab Test and Results
  • Immunizations
  • Allergies
  • Medications (brand and generic)

Message Center

Via the Patient Portal’s Message Center, patients using the Patient Portal will be able to communicate electronically with their caregivers. Messages will be routed from the Message Center through the HIE to the provider’s EMR and vice versa. The patient can send message for a wide variety of reasons:

  • An appointment request/cancellation
  • Prescription refill
  • Referral to a specialist
  • Lab and other test results
  • Seek advice
  • Other free-text/unstructured messages

Data Sharing via Consent

The Data Sharing section of the Patient Portal gives the patient the ability to opt in /out from sharing medical records, selectively. The consent can specify the data sets and is assigned to:

  • HIE
  • Hospital
  • Provider
  • Care Giver
  • Family Member/Guardian

Document Management

Patients can print and/or exchange documents and data with other systems using industry-standard transactions.

  • Print: Generate reports for the data information for selected or data elements
  • Upload: Upload a data file in unstructured format for medical treatments
  • Transfer: Import/Export the data securely in the industry defined CCD/CCR formats with MS HealthVault ®

Online Payments

An interface will be built to the hospital’s patient billing system so that any outstanding patient payments will be visible to the patient via the Patient Portal. And, the patient can make secure online payments using a credit card.