Using Secured Microsites for Sharing Documents Among Workgroups, Boards, and more
May 14th, 2012 by ReganSonnabendThe last several years have seen specialized Physician Portals become more and more prevalent among forward-thinking healthcare organizations. At HospitalPortal, where the company has dedicated its entire focus to hospital intranets for over
13 years, secured specialty portals such as those used for Boards and Physicians are an integrated part of the more encompassing intranet.
Advanced security combined with thoughtful design and a comprehensive toolbox of components allows many hospitals to have the best of both worlds—an intranet and a physician portal—in one system. By creating a full-featured communications hub for secured groups across the hospital while serving the overall staff population at the same time, hospitals can and should avoid the need for specialty portals separate from their general intranet.
Physician portals typically include content and resources such as:
- Voting and Surveys
- Discussion forums
- Physician-specific newsletters
- Formulary and Fillable forms to request additions to the Formulary
- Call schedules
- Committee meeting packets and calendars
- Orders and Protocols, Bylaws
- Links to frequently used websites and resources
- Single-Sign-On to other web enabled systems
To learn more about Physician Portals on HospitalPortal.net CLICK HERE to view a demo of our physician-centric functionality.
Another healthcare specific microsite focuses on Emergency Preparedness and Response. HospitalPortal’s Emergency Preparedness Module includes a variety of components designed to allow hospital staff to quickly and easily locate and share information pertaining to emergencies and disasters. Typical content that is published on the Emergency Preparedness homepage include a “Hot News” section as well as RSS feeds from pertinent agencies.
Other information such as Emergency Codes, descriptions, HEICS Command System and supporting Job Action Sheets, links, and key documents such as a Facility Map and Evacuation Routes can be organized on the vertical toolbar to make them accessible in just a couple of clicks. In addition, vendor-provided or in-house produced training videos can provide staff needed refreshers on procedures while more administrative functionality like the Class Registration system allows staff to register for internal classes.
Directories of cooperating organizations such as Red Cross and others and links to supporting Local, State, and Federal agencies are often published on the Emergency Preparedness departmental page as well. The scroller functionality allows sharing of urgent messages and updates as well as linked additional information.
When paired with HospitalPortal’s Log-In Manager, which allows authorized individuals access to the portal from outside the hospital network, HospitalPortal’s Emergency module can serve as a much-needed link to the outside world during a disaster. CLICK HERE for an overview demo of our Emergency Preparedness functionality.
The same security and framework used to create these microsites can easily be leveraged to set up similar microsites for any number of differnt groups within an organization. A few of the more common uses are:
- Committees
- Project Teams
- Board of Directors
Comment and let us know how you are using this sort of functionality at your hospital.
