Patient portals are an underutilized resource for a population hungry for health information, according to the results of recent survey. Craig Kemp, leader of innovative partnerships for Merck ...

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 ...

Some behavioral healthcare practices have begun advancing their patient portal and mobile app offerings. Native telehealth integration was a rarity in patient portals not too long ago. But it has ...

More than half the health systems, hospitals and clinics in a new KLAS survey offer a patient portal, with Epic's MyChart being the most widely used. The poll of 104 healthcare IT execs also found ...

As the wheels of value-based care continue to inch forward, healthcare organizations are looking for ways to increase care outside traditional care settings. Advances in telemedicine and digital ...

Patient portals were supposed to be healthcare’s digital front door. But what’s the use of a door if nobody opens it? After years of investments in portal technology, patient adoption remains dismally ...

Now that providers have largely implemented patient portals and the foundation for patient engagement strategies, the next step is to implement initiatives to get patients more actively involved in ...

Kaiser Permanente engages 45 percent of its more than 9 million members through online portals, which provide secure physician-patient email and access to KP HealthConnect, a comprehensive electronic ...

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.

Researchers conducted a retrospective analysis of 280 patients who had recently started taking an oral anticancer medication ...

Twenty-nine percent of hospitals offer access to their respective patient portals only in English, leaving many patients struggling with language barriers, a recent Ann Arbor-based University of ...

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 ...