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Custom Patient Portal Software

Overview for Healthcare Providers

With 19 years in the healthcare industry, ScienceSoft plans and implements patient portals for efficient interaction with patients.

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Patient Portals | Increased Patient Engagement in Healthcare - ScienceSoft
Patient Portals | Increased Patient Engagement in Healthcare - ScienceSoft

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Gala Batsishcha

MD, Healthcare IT Consultant at ScienceSoft

Vadim Belsky

Head of Web Development at ScienceSoft

Patient Portals: the Essence

Healthcare organizations use portals to provide patients with convenient and secure 24/7 access to their personal health information (PHI), medical advice, and assistance. A patient-facing self-service portal optimizes communication with a healthcare provider and increases patient engagement in the treatment process.

  • Key functionality: doctor visit arrangement, disease-specific modules, telehealth, payments, and seamless integration with the IT environment.
  • Costs: from $100,000 to $250,000. Use our free calculator to get a tailored ballpark estimate for your project.

Key Features of Patient Portals

ScienceSoft’s medical IT consultants design the patient portal feature set to match business needs of each healthcare organization. Below, we describe the functionality often requested by our clients.

Patient access to personal health information

  • Encrypted and password-protected login to a personal profile.
  • Health history, diagnoses, allergies, and chronic conditions view.
  • Lab test results, discharge summaries view and download.
  • Treatment, procedures, and medication plan view.
  • Personalized after-treatment lifestyle recommendations and educational materials.

Doctor visit arrangement

  • Scheduling appointments online.
  • Upcoming appointments view and ability to re-schedule visits.
  • Detailed visit history view.
  • Online filling-in of pre-visit forms.
  • Automated appointment reminders for patients (via text messages or portal notifications).

Secure patient-doctor communication

  • Messaging between a doctor and a patient.
  • Video consultations.
  • After-visit patient surveys.

Payment and insurance management for patients

  • Access to bills and explanations of benefits.
  • Online bill payment.
  • Insurance coverage cases list.

Online patient requests

  • Prescription refills requests.
  • Medical procedure requests.
  • Contact information, billing information, and health records update requests.

Portal administration

  • Granting portal access to new users.
  • Patients’ health and contact information editing.
  • Upload of a user’s clinical documents obtained from other healthcare providers.

Examples of Patient Portal Functionality ScienceSoft Implements

An after visit summary featuring patient symptoms, diagnosis, recommendations, and a medication plan

Access to a personal medical history featuring recent diagnoses, chronic diseases, allergies, a medication plan, etc.

Online healthcare service selection and visit scheduling

A pre-visit survey to provide a doctor with patient symptoms and general health information in advance

Automated patient notifications on upcoming appointments, medication intake, etc.

An integrated view of recent conversations with patients to track their recovery progress

Convenient patient-doctor audiovisual communication, messaging, and file sharing

Transparent feedback about appointments via patient surveys

Access to healthcare services invoices and easy online bill payment

Online prescription renewal that can be sent to the selected pharmacy nearby

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ScienceSoft is ready to help you deliver an intuitive portal that allows patients to securely access their health information, schedule visits and communicate with doctors.

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Important Integrations

ScienceSoft’s experts recommend integrating a patient portal with EHR/EMR and CRM to enable a holistic patient health history view and eliminate the need for repetitive patient data entry into different systems. As a result, such integrations help healthcare providers reduce patient data management costs and prevent them from storing fragmented or duplicated information.

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EHR / EMR (Electronic Health Records or Electronic Medical Records)

to share patients’ health history, treatment plans, and billing history in their personal portal accounts and pull patient-driven information (pre-visit information, payment updates, etc.) from the portal.

CRM (Customer Relationship Management)

or Call Center software, Practice Management System – to accumulate a patient’s visit history, health support requests and messaging history and provide personalized care approach and service offerings.

How to Develop a Patient Portal

1. Analyzing the needs of your healthcare organization and patients to define key functions of a patient portal, decide on web or mobile development, and more.

2. Creating patient portal requirements specification and tech design (including tech stack, integrations, etc.).

3. Designing compliance roadmap for HIPAA, GDPR, and other applicable regulations.

4. Planning the UX of a patient portal.

5. Designing attractive UI elements that follow the healthcare organization's brand book and are focused on ease of use and accessibility.

6. Development and testing of a patient portal in iterations.

7. Preparing user training materials for the roles within the healthcare organization and quick start guides for patients.

8. Launching the patient portal.

9. Supporting and maintaining the portal for impeccable patient experience.

What Determines a Patient Portal Success

To make sure your healthcare organization gets the most value from a patient portal, ScienceSoft suggests you pay attention to:

Intuitive portal navigation

so that the portal can be used by expert and novice users alike.

Mobile optimization

to make sure patients can access the portal from various devices (smartphones, tablets, PCs) both at home and on-the-go.

Promotion of the portal

among patients as a central communication tool to take the load off a call center.

Real-Life Patient Portal Success Stories by ScienceSoft

When a Custom Patient Portal Is Your Best Choice

ScienceSoft recommends healthcare providers opting for custom patient portals when they want to:

  • Integrate the portal with multiple systems (EHR/EMR, CRM, hospital department systems such as RIS (Radiology Imaging System), marketing automation software, etc.) and especially with legacy solutions.
  • Provide branded UI that can be difficult or impossible to configure with out-of-the-box software capabilities.
  • Leverage advanced patient engagement techniques (e.g., gamification elements, such as achievements, social media sharing options).
  • Add telehealth functionality to take care of the patients remotely, including e-visits.

Patient Portal Costs

Pricing Information

In ScienceSoft’s experience, the costs of a custom patient portal can range from $100,000 to $250,000+ and largely depend on the project specifics and required integrations (e.g., with EHR).

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Discover Your Cost of Patient Portal Development

Please answer a few simple questions prepared by our medical IT consultants to help us understand your needs and calculate the cost of your patient portal quicker.

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*What best describes your situation?

How many organizations are you planning to target, approximately?

How many end users will use your patient portal, approximately?

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End users are individuals (patients, healthcare professionals, administrative staff, etc.) from all organizations.

How many individuals will use your patient portal, approximately?

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Individuals include patients, healthcare professionals, administrative staff, etc.

*Which software version do you need?

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A minimum viable product (MVP) is the earliest shippable software version that contains only the essential feature set and can be upgraded over time with new features based on user feedback.

*What functionality do you need to implement?

What systems do you want your patient portal to be integrated with?

Should your patient portal interact with medical devices (e.g., blood pressure and glucose monitors, pulse oximeters)?

What analytics features would you like to have in your patient portal?

*Which platforms does your patient portal need to support?

*Do you have any tech stack preferences (programming languages, frameworks, clouds, etc.)?

*Do you have any preferences for the environment?

*What are the required regulations or standards for your patient portal?

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Patient Portal Implementation

Thanks to our 19 years of experience in web portals development, ScienceSoft knows how to make an efficient patient portal. Our mission is to empower project success despite time and budget constraints, as well as changing requirements.

Patient portal consulting

Our healthcare IT consultants:

  • Analyze your patient interaction workflows.
  • Define a portal’s features and tech stack.
  • Develop a business case.
  • Design a secure portal architecture and define necessary integrations.
  • Deliver UX and UI mock-ups.
  • Provide project pricing and timing estimation.
  • Help comply with relevant regulations (HIPAA, HITECH, FDA, NCPDP D.0, etc.).
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Patient portal development

We provide:

  • Portal consulting, design, and project planning.
  • Patient portal development and quality assurance.
  • Portal compliance with applicable regulations.
  • Integration with your EHR, CRM, Call center software, Practice Management System.
  • User training.
  • Continuous patient portal support and maintenance.
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We worked with ScienceSoft on the refactoring and modernization of our telehealth web portal and a cross-platform patient application. During the project, we were impressed by their code analysis proficiency and in-depth knowledge of telemedicine specifics. ScienceSoft proved to be a reliable vendor with a solid healthcare background, and we recommend them to everyone looking for a telehealth software development partner.

Todd Nilson, MD, HealthPoint Plus

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What makes ScienceSoft different

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About ScienceSoft

ScienceSoft is an international IT consulting and software development vendor headquartered in Texas, US. Experienced in healthcare solutions, ScienceSoft advises on patient portal implementation and develops custom patient portals that bring value to healthcare providers and patients alike. We hold ISO 13485 certification proving we design and develop medical software according to the requirements of the FDA and the Council of the European Union. Discuss patient portal consultancy and development services with our healthcare team.