New Yorkers yesterday got to test-drive the designs of nine companies that entered the Patient Portal for New Yorkers Design Challenge sponsored by the New York eHealth Collaborative, in partnership with Health 2.0.

The nine entries were prototypes of a statewide patient portal, a website for New Yorkers to use to access their medical records online. The award winner will be named May 13. NYeC will work with a vendor to build the portal and run it on behalf of the state of New York via its health information exchange network. NYeC estimates that by the first quarter of 2014 tens of thousands of patients may be using the system.

Yesterday, the nine finalists presented a five-minute demo of their portal to a panel of judges in Manhattan. The nine finalist companies are Amis, ChARM EHR, ClarityHealthJournal, GenR Media, iHealthNY, Mana Health, MyHealthProfile, OmniMD and VIP Patients. Video demos of their products are online here.

"Patient Portal Design" originally appeared on Crain's New York Business.