Health care's real problem is operational capacity, not AI, and the right tools are the ones that eliminate work rather than add dashboards.
|Slideshows|April 10, 2020
- March 25, 2019 edition
- Volume 96
- Issue 6
6 ways to put your patient portal to better use
Author(s)Gary Hamilton, Logan Lutton
Make the most of your patient portal in the time of COVID-19.
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With the COVID-19 pandemic upending traditional ways of physicians to communicate with their patients, its a perfect time for physicians to make the most of your patient portal.Gary Hamilton is chief executive officer of patient portal software provider InteliChart.
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