title: The portal advantage. Hospitals lure docs with easy access to medical records.
abstract: Physician portals provide quick, easy and secure access to patient records via the Internet. Hospital executives who have made the relatively low investment say it gives them a leg up on the competition for doctors--and their patients.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Greene
mesh_terms: D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends*; D018578:Hospital-Physician Relations; D020407:Internet; D007449:Investments; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D011216:Practice Management, Medical; D018511:Systems Integration; D014481:United States