Teaching patients how to access a patient portal and its role in their post-discharge care increases engagement during and after hospitalization. It also improves patient experience, a new JAMIA study ...

Your practice’s patient portal: It’s the easiest place for patients to access their lab results, get prescription refills, send a message to their doctor or schedule an appointment. Yet not all ...

All beneficiaries in the Department of Defense have access to their healthcare information in a single place - the TRICARE Online Patient Portal. The Online Patient Portal, also known as TRICARE ...

(HealthDay News) — Patients want portals that include features such as appointment scheduling, viewing test results, and checking prescription refills, and are frustrated with unresponsive staff and ...

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 ...

Patient portal adoption among healthcare organizations is growing, in part because of the Stage 2 meaningful use requirements for patient engagement and in part because an increasing number of ...

The Lewiston-based health system said switching to a new patient portal has not disrupted care or medical records. Here's ...

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 ...

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 ...

We need creative ways to expand access without overburdening doctors ...

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 ...