Your practice. Your health. Better connected.
Bring online patient appointment booking, telehealth video visits, electronic health records (EHR), patient messaging, and practice management to your WordPress website with Akashic. Patients get a patient portal; healthcare staff get workspaces for scheduling, clinical care, and running the practice.
Patients use their own Akashic account across participating practices. They can manage appointments, read their records, complete forms, message their practice, and choose family members or caregivers who can help. Staff get access according to their role and the patient's sharing permissions.
An Akashic account and an internet connection are required. The plugin connects your website to the hosted Akashic service; it is not a standalone records system. Practices can start with the free plan, including the first clinician seat. Additional clinician seats and optional add-ons may require payment. Patient accounts are free; charges from a practice for healthcare are separate. Visit
akashic.health for current features and pricing.
Third-Party Services
This plugin communicates with the hosted Akashic service when you set up a practice, sign in, or use a portal or form. It sends information you submit for the requested action, such as account details, appointment requests, messages, questionnaire answers, health records, and uploaded files. It also sends authentication and request metadata needed to authorize those actions.
Production also uses the fhir-*.akashichealthrecords.com APIs and
https://terminology.akashichealthrecords.com/fhir. Authentication uses AWS Cognito in the us-east-1 region. File transfers use authorized S3 URLs returned by the service. Akashic's applicable agreements are presented in the application during account and practice setup; see
akashic.health for service information.
Patient appointment booking and scheduling
Let patients book appointments from your practice website. Staff can manage the appointment calendar, check patients in, reschedule visits, and cancel appointments. Configure practice locations, services, and booking rules for your workflow.
Telehealth video visits
Provide telehealth appointments with video and audio for patients and clinicians. Patients enter their visit through the patient portal, and staff manage the visit from their workspace.
Electronic health records (EHR)
Work with medical records including medications, allergies, conditions, visit notes, lab results, and care plans. Akashic uses FHIR R4 resources in its hosted records service. Patients use one Akashic account across participating practices, with access governed by roles and sharing permissions.
Patient messaging and care teams
Give patients and authorized staff a place to exchange messages and follow up on care. Family members and caregivers can help through patient-controlled sharing permissions.
Patient intake and HIPAA forms
Collect intake questionnaires, medical history, and patient agreements through your website. Publish public forms using the Akashic Public Form block or the supplied embed, and let patients complete requested forms in their portal. For practices seeking HIPAA-compliant forms, Akashic supplies access controls and agreement workflows; compliance also depends on the practice's agreements, policies, and website safeguards.
Practice management and billing
Manage staff access by role, practice locations, services, tasks, and clinical workflows. Use invoices and patient payments when your practice has a payment gateway configured. Practices can start with the free clinician seat and add optional paid capacity.
Upcoming: medical records requests, fax OCR, and record import
The Records workspace being completed brings incoming and outgoing medical records requests together with patient matching, packet preparation, review, approval, and delivery. Planned packet choices include records related to the sending practice or all records permitted for that disclosure.
Fax OCR is being completed for both referral faxes and received medical records. It will extract text into drafts for staff review, with uncertain information left for staff to resolve. Structured record import will let authorized staff review proposed data before filing it into the patient's record; OCR suggestions do not become confirmed clinical data automatically.
These workflows are upcoming and are not yet available in the published 1.0 package. External SMART on FHIR connections are separate planned follow-up work.
- Install Akashic Health Records Patient Portal from the WordPress plugin directory, or upload the release ZIP using Plugins > Add New Plugin > Upload Plugin.
- Activate the plugin.
- Open Akashic Health Records Patient Portal in the WordPress admin menu.
- Follow the setup steps to create or connect your practice, complete the required agreements, and configure staff, services, locations, and scheduling.
- Use the portal-page controls to publish the patient and staff portals. For a manually created page, use
[akashere_patient_portal] for patients or [akashere_staff_portal] for staff.
- For a public form, publish the form in Akashic and use the Akashic Public Form block or its supplied embed on a WordPress page.
An HTTPS website is required. Avoid adding advertising, analytics, or other third-party scripts to portal pages that could capture health information.