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 ...

We can still be in charge of patient care, but maybe we could use help explaining options ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: This article is the second in an occasional series that will be published over the next year on Health Affairs Blog responding to and reflecting on the latest findings of the University ...

An efficient patient portal can make a positive difference in a patient's care experience. Patient portals not only allow health systems to meet patients where they are, but also gives them more ...

MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. – In this time of social distancing and self-isolation in an effort to combat the spread of COVID-19, we strongly encourage that all of our ...

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 ...

While 49 percent of patients know their doctor's office offers a patient portal, 40 percent were not aware of a patient portal offering and 11 percent of patients know their doctor doesn't offer one, ...

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 ...

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 ...