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 ...

The use of patient portals that provide access to electronic health records (EHRs) has dramatically increased in the past several years, and patients whose healthcare practioner encouraged them to use ...

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 ...

Nearly 60% of hospitals only offer patient portal access in English and Spanish. HealthDay News — Nearly 3 in 10 US hospitals do not offer access to a patient portal in a language other than English, ...

Older Americans are increasingly likely to log into "patient portals" to access their healthcare information -- but confidence levels vary. About 78% of people aged 50 to 80 now use at least one ...

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 ...

The annual Most Wired hospitals report and survey results are out, and they include a bevy of metrics about health IT adoption in the US today. Some 63 percent of hospitals on the 2015 Most Wired list ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) -- Scripps Health patients tell ABC 10News they can now access the MyScripps patient portal for the first time in nearly a month. There’s an explanation of the May 1 network outage ...

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 ...