Patient engagement technology vendors can expect a shifting landscape as their customer base looks toward a more consolidated, consumer-centered patient engagement strategy, according to the latest...
A group of health IT academics is laying out the argument for closing the digital divide, saying that achieving what they termed as “techquity” in patient portal adoption is actually...
The digital patient experience is becoming more important than ever, with new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) figures showing that more than half of patients use the internet to find...
Healthcare professionals need to determine what it’ll take for patients to trust the exchange of their social determinants of health (SDOH) data, including looking into improving patient...
Patient data access is at an all-time high, with new data from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT showing three in five patients being offered and accessing their digital health...
American patients are split as to whether they are comfortable with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in their healthcare experience, according to survey data from Propeller Insights on behalf of...
New data in the journal Radiation Oncology is providing more insights into how the 21st Century Cures Act’s provision mandating immediate patient data access and access to lab results impacts...
The information blocking rule under the 21st Century Cures Act, which eased patient data access, may have had the unintended consequence of disrupting the patient experience, with a new study in JAMA...
Zocdoc has unveiled a new suite of tools to enable patient access and practice management, part of the Zocdoc Practice Solutions, the company announced in a press release.
The technologies will...
A whopping four in 10 Americans has heard medical misinformation and false claims about COVID-19, reproductive health, and gun violence, illustrating a difficult landscape for medical and public health...
Patient advocacy group OpenNotes wants to make it easier for patients to take advantage of open clinical notes through the launch of its online resource, How To Use Open Notes.
Open notes is the...
Although the number of doctors spreading medical misinformation is small, new data looking particularly at COVID-19-related misinformation reveals that providers have a broad reach with their...
YouTube is continuing its efforts to combat online medical misinformation by further clarifying how it will assess online video content.
The Google-owned social media platform said it will zero in on...
Only around 43 percent of parents or guardians use the patient portal to manage their child’s health, representing a pretty serious lapse in patient engagement, according to a new survey from the...
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...
In the world of chronic disease management tools, not all technologies are created equal. According to a new Regenstrief Institute study, care management apps that offer patient data access and data...
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...
Can ChatGPT really replace doctors? Probably not, at least for right now, as surveying shows that patient trust in chatbots and generative AI in healthcare is relatively low.
The report from The...
More evidence is emerging that ChatGPT, a conversational generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, can effectively answer patient questions, this time out of Massachusetts General...
