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 ...

Beth Cavanaugh, 79, was starting a new medication when she ran into a modern hurdle: Her doctor’s office required all follow-up questions, even those about side effects of the drug, to go through the ...

All beneficiaries in the Department of Defense have access to their healthcare information in a single place - the TRICARE Online Patient Portal. The Online Patient Portal, also known as TRICARE ...

Directly discussing online portals with patients in the primary care setting may help increase patients’ portal use, according to a study in Annals of Family Medicine. Researchers studied the ...

(HealthDay News) — Patients want portals that include features such as appointment scheduling, viewing test results, and checking prescription refills, and are frustrated with unresponsive staff and ...

Patient Portals- A Method for Further Engaging Your Patients Patients are increasingly assuming responsibility for understanding their healthcare information and they are using patient portals to ...

Credit: Getty Images In a survey, most providers in a large integrated health system said they accepted billing for e-visits and indicated that it took little to no effort to complete. A study ...

Patient portals that provide secure online access to medical record information and provider communication can improve health care. Yet new technologies can exacerbate existing disparities. We ...

When visiting a Starbucks near my office one morning last week, I was surprised to find myself the only customer in the store ...

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 ...

Almost 37 percent of patients enrolled in a large academic health system's patient portal sent at least one message to a physician in 2010, according to a study of 49,778 patients who enrolled in the ...

A cross-sectional survey was conducted at a tertiary academic pediatric center in Toronto, Canada. English-speaking pediatric patients with cancer age 12 years and older, as well as their caregivers, ...