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 ...

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 ...

It’s a familiar routine for many patients: navigate to a hospital website and let the clicking begin. First locate the patient portal. Log in. Want to see X-rays from a past appointment? Log into a ...

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 ...

“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 ...

NASCAR icon Dale Earnhardt Jr. explains how he made a completely wrong and embarrassing assumption after a hospital visit.

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 ...

A federal judge on Wednesday tossed a proposed class-action lawsuit by Jefferson Health patients accusing the Philadelphia area’s largest health system of allowing Facebook’s third-party tracking ...

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 ...

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 ...