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 ...

DARTMOUTH — From e-mail and smartphones to social media, the way we communicate with each other constantly evolves. But the exchange between patients and doctors has generally been stuck in the 20th ...

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 ...

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 ...

Directly discussing online portals with patients in the primary care setting may help increase patients’ portal use, according to a study in Annals of Family Medicine. Researchers studied the ...

Seventeen percent of respondents who don’t use online portals said they haven’t adopted them due to security concerns. Online portals can help patients keep track of their medical information, like ...

The pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus has caused a need for adapting across many industries, and healthcare is no different. The rise of telemedicine is an example of change already occurring.

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, ...

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 ...

An emotional toll. The survey revealed half of patients reported anxiety or stress after switching, and 16% said they felt ...

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 ...