Patient portals can make or break a positive care experience. As the healthcare sector begins to embrace the idea of patients as consumers, having an efficient and easy to use patient portal is a ...

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 ...

May 4 (UPI) --More patient portals and electronic health records should enable users to create "proxy" accounts for nurses and home aids to prevent unintentional sharing of personal health details, ...

Among adults who had set up a patient portal account by the time of the 2018 poll, the most common use was to see test results (84%). Other common uses were requesting a prescription refill (43%), ...