Health literacy plays a key role in patient engagement, and it may contribute to wider health disparities among older adults. A study from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in ...

Some behavioral healthcare practices have begun advancing their patient portal and mobile app offerings. Native telehealth integration was a rarity in patient portals not too long ago. But it has ...

Many older adults use various types of digital health technology, but patient portals top the list, a new survey finds. Investigators used data from the internet and phone calls conducted in 2021 that ...

July 25--Across Northeast Mississippi, patient portals are opening online access to doctors and hospitals. "We do everything online, book airline tickets, paying bills," said Tupelo family physician ...

Hospitals are developing or expanding patient portals to give patients better access to their personal medical records, according to several news reports. The University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical ...

There has been an industry shift to digital and its power to help patients, prompting UPMC to continually enhance the digital experience, including through its MyUPMC Patient Portal and accompanying ...

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 ...

Patient portals were supposed to be healthcare’s digital front door. But what’s the use of a door if nobody opens it? After years of investments in portal technology, patient adoption remains dismally ...

Patients are able to access their health information and make payments with ease through the system's patient portal. From allowing patients to communicate with their providers, to viewing test ...

The CommonWell Health Alliance, a trade association of health IT companies that has been working for the last three years to establish data interoperability between its members’ technologies, ...

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 ...