A Portal Adoption Program to Enhance Patient Satisfaction in Primary Care.

Patient engagement technologies have become a focal point for defining quality in government and medical practice arenas. Patient portals are recognized as a promising mechanism to foster patient engagement and, as such, have become embedded in major healthcare reform initiatives. Despite sweeping implementation endeavors, portal adoption rates among patients remain low and create a significant gap in quality-based reimbursement.

Collaborating to implement interprofessional educational competencies through an international immersion experience.

Interprofessional collaborative practice is the key to safe, high-quality, accessible, patient-centered care. Achieving this requires the development of interprofessional competencies by health professions students as part of the learning process so that they enter the workforce ready to practice effective team-based care. The authors describe how the immersion process of an international short-term medical mission experience can intensify interprofessional learning by addressing selected Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC), 2011, Core Interprofessional Education Competencies.