April 15, 2024 - If you’re a clinician with your inbox open for patient portal secure messaging, you need to make sure you have a good inbox management strategy in place. Coming up against strong patient demand for secure direct messaging and unabating levels of administrative burden and provider burnout, healthcare practitioners need to consider the...

April 11, 2024 - Patient portal messages represent just a drop in the bucket of overall evaluation and management (E&M) services, according to new Michigan Medicine data, findings that may help temper industry anxieties about the increased workload these messages can cause. Indeed, during the height of the pandemic, patient portal messages represented just...

April 9, 2024 - The 2021 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has had far-ranging effects, with new KFF polling showing that one in seven women of reproductive age (18-49) know someone who’s had a hard time accessing an abortion after the decision came out. In states that enacted abortion bans following the Dobbs decision, that figure was one...

April 4, 2024 - A third of LGBT adult patients said they’ve had disrespectful healthcare experiences, a rate that’s double that for adults who do not identify as LGBT and should be a cause for concern for healthcare providers, according to KFF, which conducted and published the survey data. LGBT adults were also more likely than their counterparts to...