Duke Web Portal Models IT Growth in Healthcare

Liz Perry for Leaders in Healthcare – April 7, 2008

Duke University Health System is one of the leaders in healthcare’s strides toward technology, setting the pace with its recent creation of a new health portal. The new portal at Dukehealth.org will give patients secured access to their medical records, personalized health progress data, prescriptions, physician referrals, and lab results. They will also be able to request physician appointments online.

For those seeking new healthcare opportunities in the near future, technology will provide a great number. As healthcare providers begin converting everything from changing addresses to sharing test results to an electronic, user-based format, more and more health informatics professionals will be needed to create and maintain supporting technologies.

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