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The central feature that makes any system a patient portal is the ability to securely expose individual patient health information through the Internet. In addition, virtually all patient portals allow patients to interact in some way with healthcare providers.
Providence Medical Group, the "physician division" of Providence Health & Services, [2] operates more than 250 clinics in neighborhoods throughout Alaska, California, Montana, Oregon and Washington, and employs over 1,600 physicians with expertise in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology, dermatology and other specialties.
Centricity is a brand of healthcare IT software systems [1] from GE Healthcare, formerly a division of General Electric.It includes software for independent physician practices, academic medical centers, hospitals and large integrated delivery networks.
The company was founded by Jonathan Bush and Todd Park in 1997 as Athena Women's Health, a women's health and birthing center in San Diego, California. [5]At the birthing center, only 10% of babies were delivered by C-section, one-third of the national average, and 90% of mothers could breastfeed their newborns, beating the national average of 67%.
The product is now owned by athenahealth. Carecast was a system used primarily by large hospitals and medical centers as an integrated clinical and financial application. Known as "Lastword" before IDX re-branded it, the system was developed in the 1980s by Seattle -based PHAMIS , Inc., a company acquired by IDX in 1997. [ 7 ]
It further expanded to 127 beds in 1949, and a seven-story, $782,000 patient care tower was completed in 1965. In 1990, the hospital elected to change its name to General Hospital Medical Center. In 1994, Providence Hospital and General Hospital Medical Center merged, forming Providence General Medical Center.
Providence Portland Medical Center, located at 4805 NE Glisan St. in the North Tabor neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, is a full-service medical center specializing in cancer and cardiac care. Opened in 1941, the hospital is licensed for 483 beds, and has over 3,000 employees. There are approximately 1,000 physicians on staff.
Four-and-a-half year old Brenda Kay Earle was the hospital's first patient on May 15, 1952. Also in that year, Randall John Stewart was the first baby born there. In 2006, there were 4,900 employees and a 700-member medical staff. The hospital's Emergency Room treated 8,287 patients during 1956, its first year.