A recent study of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Web-based patient portal, My HealtheVet, found a small, statistically significant and potentially meaningful improvement in diabetes-related ...

KENNEDY: By logging into a secure Web-based service called RelayHealth, Dr. Nichols's patients can request an appointment, ask for a referral or get a prescription refilled, or they can sign up for ...

Seventeen percent of respondents who don’t use online portals said they haven’t adopted them due to security concerns. Online portals can help patients keep track of their medical information, like ...

The current study design is nested within an ongoing cohort and intervention study, that focus on different constructs within the ICP. [29] We chose a two-arm nested randomized controlled trial (RCT) ...

This analysis of more than 250,000 adults at least 50 years old with chronic conditions showed lower portal use among older, non–English-speaking, and Black patients, underscoring digital health ...

LMH Health, 325 Maine St., is pictured in May 2021. It never fails. You get home from an appointment with your doctor and it dawns on you that there’s one question you forgot to ask. You can’t always ...

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 ...

An early adopter of patient-provider electronic communication billing saw a decline in the number of messages received from patients after implementing a workflow change in which its clinicians ...

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 ...

Credit: Getty Images In a survey, most providers in a large integrated health system said they accepted billing for e-visits and indicated that it took little to no effort to complete. A study ...

“Given current expectations that response messages are written by physicians, a disclosure of AI authorship may feel like a deception.” Survey results suggest that patients prefer patient portal ...