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 ...

Thirty-eight percent of Americans accessed a patient portal in 2020, according to a report from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. The ONC surveyed 3,865 Americans about their use ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights has released two new patient privacy resources that healthcare organizations can use to educate patients about reducing their ...

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 ...