What are some benefits of the Partners Patient Gateway?

The Partners Patient Gateway portal allows patients of Partners Healthcare to manage and review prescriptions, referral authorizations and medical test results. A key benefit is coordinated care between patients, doctors and caregivers. Parents and guardians have online access to medical records to effectively care for children, notes Partners Healthcare, and adult children who care for elderly parents also have access.

After patient enrollment, the Partners Patient Gateway offers secure electronic messaging for quick communication. Benefits include patient updates to medications, allergies and health problems, indicates Partners Healthcare. Additionally, the ability to attach images to records makes symptoms immediately visible to appropriate health care providers. Similarly, patients can view test results promptly.

A mobile version of Partners Patient Gateway allows users to access their health records with a smartphone, but patients can also view doctor visit summaries and updates through any computer with Internet access. While the portal is a tool to manage appointments and pay bills, patients can also send non-urgent messages to doctor's offices. Whenever an update occurs in Gateway, the medical office notifies patients via email, states Partners Healthcare.

Through Partners Patient Gateway, doctors send health questionnaires, appointment reminders and schedules for preventative tests, such as mammograms or prostate exams. Immunization records are also available through the Gateway portal, notes Partners Healthcare.