New Yorkers weigh in on patient portal design

The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), a health IT nonprofit in the Empire State, has organized the Patient Portal for New Yorkers Design Challenge, asking developers to build innovative and user-friendly portals for patient information access.

Public voting selected nine finalists who will showcase their efforts on April 30 in New York City. Health Imaging will be on hand to see the demonstrations and will report on the demonstration day May 2. For now, check out the video from NYeC below:

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