MEDITECH
Internet Access for Patients and Staff
product brief

The use of Internet technology as an effective tool for communication continues to expand within the health care industry. MEDITECH has developed a pair of software applications that allow patients and health care organization staff to access crucial information from wherever they can connect to the World Wide Web. Utilizing a browser-based format, MEDITECH’s Internet Access for Patients and Internet Access for Staff applications organize relevant data from the Health Care Information System in a secure and easily accessible manner.

Highlights:
   • Quick access to information in a familiar browser format
   • Protection of confidential information
   • Easy, ongoing patient communications
   • Fast performance.

Standard Features

Internet Access for Patients
MEDITECH’s Internet Access for Patients application optimizes the speed and convenience of the Internet to help health care organizations develop and maintain effective electronic relationships between patients and their health care communities.

Application features enable patients to:
• Verify appointment schedules and view a log of past visits
• Request appointments
• Update demographic and insurance information
• Confirm health plan and billing information
• Request prescription renewals
• Review educational materials through MEDITECH’s Patient Education application
• View their own test results and reports through the organization’s Web site
• Communicate sensitive medical information to providers at any time, in complete confidence
• Check an access log that lists the names of all users who have viewed their information, as well as the dates and number of times viewed.

Internet Access for Staff
MEDITECH’s Internet Access for Staff application enables health care organization employees to easily access work-related data in order to manage daily tasks efficiently. In addition to general employee features, the application also provides specific tools for administrators and front desk personnel.

Administrators have the ability to:
• View daily activity and departmental summaries of charges, costs, and revenues
• Quickly access registration data, including number of admissions, discharges, bed days, and appointments
• View the organization’s fiscal status with a financial overview feature.

General employee features allow staff members to:
• Access their daily work schedules, professional benefits, and personal information
• View their earning and withholding information from previous years
• Submit vacation requests.

Front desk personnel have the ability to:
• View the organization’s directory, including directions and contact information for all facilities
• Access general patient information such as patient location in the health care facility.

Both the Internet Access for Patients and the Internet Access for Staff applications provide features for information systems staff members, enabling them to:
• View daily Web usage summaries that break down the number of system accesses by user type
• Monitor a system status log around the clock.

MEDITECH ensures that data in both the Internet Access for Patients and Internet Access for Staff applications is secure and encrypted when transmitted across the World Wide Web.

For more information about us, contact a MEDITECH Marketing Representative

MEDITECH
Medical Information Technology, Inc.
MEDITECH Circle
Westwood, MA 02090
781-821-3000
www.meditech.com