Advocate Aurora Research Institute scientists are using Advocate Health Care's large, diverse patient population to study how different groups of patients are using the system's patient portal. In a ...

Beth Cavanaugh, 79, was starting a new medication when she ran into a modern hurdle: Her doctor’s office required all follow-up questions, even those about side effects of the drug, to go through the ...

LMH Health, 325 Maine St., is pictured in May 2021. It never fails. You get home from an appointment with your doctor and it dawns on you that there’s one question you forgot to ask. You can’t always ...

Patient portal use is on the rise, as more patients access their medical information online, increasingly through apps, HHS reported. Here are six things to know about patient portal adoption, ...

Seventeen percent of respondents who don’t use online portals said they haven’t adopted them due to security concerns. Online portals can help patients keep track of their medical information, like ...

There's been a crucial shift toward active, ongoing self-management of health and wellness among patients, according to the U.S. Health and Human Services' Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy ...

“Given current expectations that response messages are written by physicians, a disclosure of AI authorship may feel like a deception.” Survey results suggest that patients prefer patient portal ...

Billing for certain patient portal messages was associated with a modest decrease in message volume in a large health system, researchers found. In the 6 months after starting to bill for some ...

Credit: Getty Images In a survey, most providers in a large integrated health system said they accepted billing for e-visits and indicated that it took little to no effort to complete. A study ...

The artificial intelligence revolution has arrived in healthcare, with the technology transforming everything from diagnostics to drug discovery to personalized treatments—processes largely unseen by ...

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In the 6 months after starting to bill for some messages as "e-visits," the volume of patient-initiated medical advice message threads decreased 8.8% compared with the same dates in the previous year ...