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 ...

A patient portal is an internet-based platform that lets you view medical records and connect with your health care professional. When you use the portal, it means you don’t have to call the office to ...

As medicine leans harder on electronic portals and telehealth, these patients are finding themselves shut out of their own ...

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 ...

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.

Q: Why does my doctor want me to use the "patient portal?" A: Fun fact: Medical records date back to hieroglyphic inscriptions found as early as 3,000 B.C. Paper medical records began filling filing ...

Far more older adults these days log on to secure websites or apps to connect with their health information or have a virtual health care appointment, compared with five years ago, a new poll shows.

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 ...