INDIANAPOLIS
– Reaching your doctor’s office can be a challenge because office
hours don’t always coincide with your free moments
So, imagine connecting with your
physician’s office with a click of a button, submitting medication refill
requests, appointment time requests, even non-emergency questions?
That’s what MyChart offers to
primary-care patients through St. Francis Medical Group of Franciscan St.
Francis Health. The group has practices offer new information technology to
streamline patient care and administrative services.
With MyChart, patients can:
- · Schedule appointments online.
- · Send direct messages to their primary care physician’s office.
- · Receive test results online – with no waiting a return call or letter.
- · Request medications refills.
- · Review medications, immunizations, allergies and medical history.
- · Access family records.
- · View details of past and upcoming appointments.
- · Link children’s accounts for convenient access to appointments and other vital medical records.
- · View Franciscan St. Francis Health inpatient discharge instructions.
Patients 18 years and older can sign
up for MyChart when visiting their physician’s office. It only takes a few
moments to complete the forms, review the instructions and receive a personal
activation code, enabling them to login through a secure link at www.StFrancisDoctors.org.
“As a working parent, it’s tough to squeeze in calls to my
pediatrician’s office around meetings,” said one mother, who now communicates
with her pediatrician’s office from her office computer. “MyChart was easy to
use, and I got a response quickly without worrying about missing a phone call.
Better yet, I was assured this access was secure and the information remained
confidential.”
MyChart is part of a fully integrated suite of applications
for electronic medical records (EMRs) developed by Wisconsin-based Epic.
Franciscan St. Francis Health began its transition to the
Epic system more than a year ago and is part of a corporate-wide transition to
integrated electronic medical records for the Franciscan Alliance, a network of
14 hospitals systems in Indiana and Illinois.
To learn more about MyChart, go to www.franciscanalliance.org/MyChart.
