It could be useful for providers treating patients with dementia to encourage their care partners to create their own patient portal proxy accounts, according to a JAMA Internal Medicine research note...
A nearly $800,000 grant package from NYHealth and OpenNotes is set to help primary care providers and federally qualified health centers in expanding patient access to clinical notes, the organizations...
Patient portal utilization is growing among older adults, according to Michigan Medicine data, but there’s still room to close the digital divide across sociodemographics.
Over the past five...
Chatbots and ChatGPT are almost 10 times more empathetic when answering patient queries than clinicians are, according to a new JAMA Internal Medicine report, signaling the utility of these tools for...
The patient portal might be too clunky or onerous to be useful in closing care gaps, with new research finding that patient portal messages didn’t do much to get patients in for preventive...
Nearly every patient would rather get their test results via the patient portal, even if their provider hadn’t reviewed those results yet, according to new data from OpenNotes.
The report,...
Patient data access and open notes are nearly universally appreciated by patients, with a new survey from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, which was obtained via email, showing that concerns about...
The Sequoia Project is getting into the patient data access game, with the organization announcing the Consumer Voices Workgroup to get insights for patients, caregivers, and care partners about how...
KLAS Research has once again named the Epic MyChart patient portal Best in KLAS, but the rest of the annual report highlights the numerous software solutions in the patient engagement technology...
Despite near-universal confidence, patients are forgetting most of the key information following an inpatient hospital stay, leading experts from the University of Michigan School of Medicine to call...
Black and Hispanic patients are being offered patient portal access at a rate that’s 5 percentage points lower than White people, translating to lower patient portal adoption and access,...
New research published in JAMA Network Open is showing that the patient portal isn’t exactly set up for caregiver engagement and use. Caregivers are certainly using the portal, the data showed,...
The lack of data integration is starting to wear on the overall patient experience, with new survey data showing that 83 percent of patients have to provide the same health histories they have in the...
For the second year in a row, the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM) Top of Mind for Health Systems report showed that health IT investments will focus on improving patient access to care.
The...
Patient engagement technologies, like patient portals, contribute to an overall better patient experience because they enable patient data access and digital patient-provider communication, according...
Personal health record (PHR) use is key to driving patient engagement, with recent JMIR Cancer data showing PHR use among colorectal cancer survivors increasing access to follow-up care and screening...
Digital patient data access remains somewhat stable in the nation’s hospitals, with modest gains in patient portal and FHIR-based app access, according to an October data brief from the Office of...
Patient portal use in mental health is getting more common, but still, only about half of those with self-reported anxiety or depression are using the health IT, according to data published in...
Healthcare organizations can trigger improvements in patient satisfaction and engagement by providing in-person patient portal training to hospitalized patients, according to a study from the Ohio...
A medical encounter rarely only involves the patient; with the rise in family engagement, most patients have at least some loved ones involved in their care, making proxy access a key feature of the patient portal.
The patient portal is...
