A study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open found that more than half of adolescent patient portal accounts with outbound messages were accessed by ...

A new survey of teen patients with cancer and their parents sheds light on a source of friction in adolescent oncology: How much access should parents have to their child’s patient portal? While ...

It is vital to prioritize appropriate confidentiality protection in patient portals, according to researchers. Some young adults are hesitant to open a patient portal account and may limit the ...

Nearly two-thirds of insured patients do not use online portals to communicate with physicians, according to a study published in Health Affairs. For the study, researchers examined data on a ...

July 25--Across Northeast Mississippi, patient portals are opening online access to doctors and hospitals. "We do everything online, book airline tickets, paying bills," said Tupelo family physician ...

Duke Health said a lawsuit claiming its patient portal shares patient data with Facebook should be tossed because the patients haven’t shown their privacy was violated, according to a motion filed ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- Hannah Hill of Grand Forks uses her smartphone to monitor lab results of blood work, an important part of managing a blood disease she was ...

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 ...

When Congress prohibited “information blocking” under the 21st Century Cures Act in 2016, it made no reference to patient portals, the websites through which many health care providers share clinical ...

In an effort to expand the use of personal health records beyond simply a copy of records that patients can view online, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation launched a project encouraging teams to ...

The use of patient portals that provide access to electronic health records (EHRs) has dramatically increased in the past several years, and patients whose healthcare practioner encouraged them to use ...