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 ...
Kaiser Permanente engages 45 percent of its more than 9 million members through online portals, which provide secure physician-patient email and access to KP HealthConnect, a comprehensive electronic ...
As healthcare facilities launch their own patient portals, technology is only the first step. Administrators are learning that decisions need to be made on everything from patient login protocols to ...
The focus of most digital transformations taking place across the health industry is to make health care truly patient-centric. The rapid adoption and implementation of disruptive technologies, such ...
Patients with activated patient portal accounts report higher patient satisfaction in respective dimensions of the Clinician and Group Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CG-CAHPS ...
Melissa A. Dziak, left, and Robert J. Aldrich III, right, of Marshall Dennehey. Courtesy photos With the recent implementation of the 21st Century Cures Act and modifications to the HITECH Act, many ...
Clinicians may be concerned about the potential of electronic patient portals to disrupt the therapeutic relationship, deliver medicolegal burdens or harm patients, but these fears are largely ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Only 10% of hospital patient portals offered access in languages other than English or Spanish. Patients who ...
Errors and irrelevant details mean physicians may spend more time editing AI-drafted responses than it would take to write ...