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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Access to electronic health information can be improved through provider assistance for optimal use of a patient portal. In addition, strong support from providers to use a patient portal strongly ...

Most hospitals offer patient portal access in English and Spanish, the prevalence of which was followed by English only.

From 2017 to 2022, patients with better communication with providers were more likely to report being offered and accessing a patient portal, but disparities persist. Objectives: To identify the ...

There's been a crucial shift toward active, ongoing self-management of health and wellness among patients, according to the U.S. Health and Human Services' Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy ...

Hospital patient portals offered only in English create barriers for 25 million patients with limited English proficiency, a University of Michigan ...

When Congress prohibited “information blocking” under the 21st Century Cures Act in 2016, it made no reference to patient portals, the websites through which many health care providers share clinical ...

Sansum Clinic patients will be switched to a new health care information portal next week, which is part of the Santa Barbara ...

Big Decisions on Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Focus on Clinical Care Updates and Patient Perspectives Communication in oncology was challenging long before the emergence of the US 21st Century Cures Act.