Patient engagement with electronic health information through online medical records or patient portals spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, but racial and ethnic disparities persisted, according to a ...

Digital access and care continuity correlated strongly with telemedicine uptake, including patient portal use (OR 1.44) and returning-visit status, while new-patient encounters were markedly less ...

Editor’s Note: This article is the second in an occasional series that will be published over the next year on Health Affairs Blog responding to and reflecting on the latest findings of the University ...

Teaching patients how to access a patient portal and its role in their post-discharge care increases engagement during and after hospitalization. It also improves patient experience, a new JAMIA study ...

A new survey of teen patients with cancer and their parents sheds light on a source of friction in adolescent oncology: How much access should parents have to their child’s patient portal? While ...

We found race and age disparities not only in who adopted patient portal technology but also in which features were accessed by those who were adopters. Objectives: We describe online portal account ...

More and more patients are accessing their medical records via patient portals or apps on their phones and tablets, and the frequency with which they access these records is increasing, according to a ...

One exec made it his mission to increase patient portal usage with the help of point-of-contact staff. Patient portals have become an important part of the revenue cycle front end. Aside from ...

The use of patient portals that provide access to electronic health records (EHRs) has dramatically increased in the past several years, and patients whose healthcare practioner encouraged them to use ...

Denise L. Anthony ([email protected]) is a professor of health management and policy and of sociology in the Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan School of Public Health, ...

Communication in oncology was challenging long before the emergence of the US 21st Century Cures Act. Before 2021, a growing body of evidence had demonstrated the benefits of patients' access to and ...

When Anna Ramsey suffered a flare-up of juvenile dermatomyositis, she feared it would lead to chemotherapy treatment that could compromise her already fragile immune system in the midst of a pandemic.