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  With goods and services increasingly moving online – and with patients prioritizing other factors besides just quality care – it has become a necessity for healthcare organizations to start looking for new ways to improve the overall patient experience. Video consultations are one such solution, and they are gaining…

How Bridge Improves Patient Engagement for athenahealth® Users
Updated on August 13, 2020. athenahealth® has two product lines, the athenahealth® core product, and the recently acquired Centricity product line. athenahealth® bought Centricity™ on Feb. 7, 2019, from Virence Health. Bridge is capable of integrating with both of the athenahealth® EHR/PM product lines. Healthcare organizations using athenahealth® frequently come…

Bridge over river
As a result of acquiring 3rd party software vendors, many of the today’s leading Electronic Health Records (EHR) organizations, such as Allscripts®, offer multiple software platforms, including EHR, patient portals and Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) solutions.  Their patient portals, often lack customizability and have trouble adapting the software to organizations’…

Updated on April 17, 2020. How Bridge Increases Patient Engagement for NextGen® Users NextGen® is a healthcare solutions provider that supports ambulatory and specialty practices, and it’s users frequently come to Bridge seeking a solution to increase patient engagement in their healthcare organizations. Bridge offers an industry-leading user experience through…

MD EMR Systems & Bridge Patient Portal
Bridge Patient Portal and MD EMR Systems, an electronic medical record solutions developer and certified development partner for GE, have established a partnership to build an interface between the Bridge Patient Portal product and the GE Centricity™ products, including Centricity Practice Solution (CPS), Centricity Business and Centricity EMR. These new…

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Within the last decade, Information Technology (IT) has fundamentally changed the delivery of healthcare in the U.S., driven by patient demand, the growing number of health IT vendors, and programs created by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). One of the segments of the U.S. population that stands…

A superior patient experience
Bridge Patient Portal is excited to be attending Centricity LIVE 2017. We’ll be showcasing Bridge Patient Portal, our new mHealth app platform and our interfaces into Centricity products. Attendees can visit Bridge Patient Portal at booth #317. Bridge Patient Portal Bridge Patient Portal is the leading ONC certified patient portal…

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Using the right Chronic Care Management company facilitates improving patient outcomes In 2011, The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) landmark publication “Crossing the Quality Chasm” sent shockwaves through the healthcare system by raising serious doubts about the quality of healthcare in the United States.  Since then, reimbursement models have undergone a…

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With features such as immunization records, growth charts, medical record sharing and age of majority rules engine, Bridge’s pediatric patient portal was the ideal choice for this pediatrics practice. December 13, 2016 – DALLAS, TX – Kansas City-based pediatrics practice Pediatric Associates – a private practice with two locations and…

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Perhaps the top priority for providers in the coming years is the successful transition from Meaningful Use to MACRA. The motivation for meeting the requirements of this transition is a series of compensation adjustments, both positive and negative. MACRA, or the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 is…