Healthcare Welcome Email — Patient Portal

A minimal healthcare welcome email introducing the patient portal — a medical-cross hero, a single profile CTA, and a plain-spoken privacy reassurance.

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The prompt

Two ways to build this email in plain language. The fastest is Temway's in-editor assistant — open the chat drawer in the email editor and paste the recipe below. Or connect Claude or ChatGPT via Temway's MCP and paste it there; the agent builds the email step by step. Either way, adapt the copy and colors to your brand.

  • An email is a top-to-bottom stack of blocks — the recipe follows that order.
  • A [layout] step becomes a single image (great for heroes); everything else stays live text and links.
  • Theme the footer to match — the recipe's last step does exactly that.

Want this exact email? Click Use this template below to clone it into your workspace, then ask the in-editor assistant to rebrand it. Over MCP, tell your agent to clone the Temway share oat0hTi_cCsFi37w90Ngz and rebrand. For the full model, point an MCP agent at get_conceptemail-structure, layouts-vs-emails, design-recipes.

The welcome email that lands the moment a patient activates their portal account. A calm teal medical-cross monogram anchors the header, followed by a single clear CTA to complete their profile and a short reassurance block about privacy. Built for trust, not hype.

Snapshot

  • Goal: confirm portal activation and guide the patient to complete their profile.
  • Audience & tone: new patient-portal users, often older or less technical. Calm, reassuring, plain-spoken — “you’re in, here’s the one thing to do, your information is safe.” No jargon.
  • Palette: page #f0fdfa · container #ffffff · text #042f2e / #475569 (muted) · accent teal #0d9488
  • Font: "Tahoma", "Geneva", sans-serif
  • Artwork: custom SVG hero — a rounded medical-cross monogram (plus sign) in teal #0d9488 on white, 120×120, centered above the wordmark

Build recipe

Each step is one block in the flat stack, top to bottom. [native] = a real email block. [layout] = a free-form layout embedded as a single image.

  1. [layout] Cross monogram hero — custom SVG (600×220): a filled medical cross (two overlapping rounded rectangles, 80×24 and 24×80, corner radius 6) in teal #0d9488, centered. Below it, wordmark “Northstar Health” in #042f2e, 22px, weight 700, letter-spacing 0.5. Build via add_custom_shape with a self-contained <svg> using fill="currentColor" so fillColor recolors the whole cross.
  2. [native] Heading — text. “Your patient portal is ready” fontSize: 26, fontWeight: 700, color #042f2e, center.
  3. [native] Intro copy — text. “Use the portal to message your care team, see test results, and request appointments — all in one place. First, let’s finish setting up your profile.” fontSize: 15, color #475569, center, line-height: 1.6.
  4. [native] CTA button — button. Label “Complete my profile”, teal #0d9488 fill, white text, rounded corners, center, padding 14×32.
  5. [native] Divider — hairline #99f6e4, generous vertical padding. Separates the welcome from the reassurance block — the flat model stacks and divides, it does not box.
  6. [native] Reassurance heading — text. “Your information is private” fontSize: 17, fontWeight: 700, color #042f2e, left.
  7. [native] Reassurance copy — text. “We never share your records. All messages are encrypted and visible only to your care team.” fontSize: 14, color #475569, left, line-height: 1.6.
  8. [native] Help line — text. “Prefer to call? Our care coordinators are at (555) 010-2030, weekdays 8am–6pm.” fontSize: 14, color #475569, center.
  9. [native] Footer — text block with “Northstar Health · 500 Wellness Blvd, Minneapolis, MN · [email protected] · Unsubscribe”, fontSize: 12, color #94a3b8, center, recolored to the palette.

Make it yours

  1. Swap “Northstar Health” for your practice name and the cross monogram for your logo.
  2. Restate the help-line hours and phone with your front-desk details.
  3. Recolor the teal accent to your brand — keep the calm, plain-spoken tone.
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