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 ...

A new survey of teen patients with cancer and their parents sheds light on a source of friction in adolescent oncology: How much access should parents have to their child’s patient portal? While ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the complex world of interoperability, ensuring that the right patient data is accessible across healthcare providers is not just a technical challenge, it’s also a lifeline for patients, ...

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, ...

Electronic health record companies continue to roll out artificial intelligence tools and capabilities, with new features designed to expand patient access, reduce friction in claims processing, ...

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 ...

MIB, the life insurance industry's most trusted and secure partner for data-driven insights and digital services announced ...

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 ...

Some patients at Foundation Health Partners, or FHP, will soon be logging into a new platform to access their health and ...