Physician Portal

Two Million Physicians Log On Per Month to McKesson Web-Based Portal

Across the country, physicians are increasing their mouse clicks into their patients' health records, thanks to a powerful Web-based portal from McKesson. Less than a year after recording 1 million user logins per month, McKesson reported that its Horizon(WP)® Physician Portal has doubled in usage, exceeding the 2 million mark. The popularity of the solution has grown as hospitals work to encourage the use of electronic health records and physicians look to IT to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of patients. This is especially important as community-based physicians collaborate with colleagues on patient treatment and travel between the hospital, their offices, home and other locations delivering care.

Today, more than 75,000 physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, as well as hospital, office and IT administrative staff at more than 500 healthcare organizations in the United States, Canada, France and the Netherlands are using the portal to support their medical procedures.

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Several enhancements have been made to the Physician Portal since the initial pilot that was completed in August 2007. These enhancements include:

• Census - Working Patient List: Practice Groups in the Census drop-down list can now be expanded to show individual members.
• Census Reports: A new Census Report has been added.  The user may use the edit preferences to define the type of report, sort order, inclusion of clinical data, and identification of the number of blanks lines on the report. These reports are accessed from the Working Patient List module.
• Delegate Cover: User has the ability to delegate or assign another user to cover for them.
• Proxy: Physician Portal now allows an office staff member to function as a proxy for a Physician. The Proxy has the ability to add and remove patients from their Working Patient List.
• Patient Search: Users can search for patients by Account number using the Active search function.