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 ...

If you're like most people, you have a number of health concerns and may visit multiple doctors and pharmacies. Keeping track of it all can be a challenge. With a personal health record, you can ...

A study published this week in Kidney Medicine found that although electronic health record portals are increasingly emphasized in chronic kidney disease treatment, interventions are needed to ensure ...

The focus of most digital transformations taking place across the health industry is to make health care truly patient-centric. The rapid adoption and implementation of disruptive technologies, such ...

Researchers conducted a retrospective analysis of 280 patients who had recently started taking an oral anticancer medication to determine to what extent they used patient portals.

Patient portals can be important tools for increasing patient interaction with personal health data and fostering communication with providers, but only if patients are willing to use them. In a ...

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 ...

Patient portals are meant to improve a user's "health journey" but the results are mixed. More physician appointments, fewer emergency department visits ... but no information on improving health.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Denise L. Anthony ([email protected]) is a professor of health management and policy and of sociology in the Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan School of Public Health, ...