Patient portals can make or break a positive care experience. As the healthcare sector begins to embrace the idea of patients as consumers, having an efficient and easy to use patient portal is a ...

People who sign up for and use their healthcare provider's online portal differ in some key characteristics from those who do not use patient portals, reports a survey study in Medical Care. The ...

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 ...

Advocate Aurora Research Institute scientists are using Advocate Health Care's large, diverse patient population to study how different groups of patients are using the system's patient portal. In a ...

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 ...

Sansum Clinic patients will be switched to a new health care information portal next week, which is part of the Santa Barbara ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — When you write your doctor through an online patient portal, do you remember to address them as "Doctor"? For nearly one-third of all messages sent from Mayo Clinic patients to ...

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente has been experimenting with AI in its patient portal, increasing patient engagement and experience in the process. The health system’s Southern California ...

The new portal is built using foundation models from OpenAI, the maker of popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, Oracle said in a press release. The tool could be used to describe medical jargon, like explaining ...

Are you thinking about asking your doctor a question through your online patient portal? At the University of Michigan Health and a growing number of hospitals across the U.S., it could cost you. U-M ...

The Department of Defense plans to decommission the online portal patients use to access old military health information and recommends patients download their digital medical records if they want to ...