Some people love them because they have all that information at their fingertips. Which is also why others hate them.
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 ...
MyChart phishing emails mimic real patient portal alerts with fake lab results and malware tricks that target Windows users across the country.
Portal messages have become a routine way for patients to communicate with their health care teams. But a new study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health suggests that how patients ...
This analysis of more than 250,000 adults at least 50 years old with chronic conditions showed lower portal use among older, non–English-speaking, and Black patients, underscoring digital health ...
More Americans are learning of devastating health diagnoses through their phones and computers instead of personally from their doctors because of a federal requirement that people receive immediate ...
Communication in oncology was challenging long before the emergence of the US 21st Century Cures Act. Before 2021, a growing body of evidence had demonstrated the benefits of patients' access to and ...
The 21st Century Cures Act policy granting patients immediate access to their test results has yielded a new symptom: nervous refreshing of the patient portal. Examined in a new JAMA Network Open ...
Black and Hispanic patients can expect to wait longer for their primary care teams to respond to their patient portal messages, according to a new report in JAMA Network Open. More specifically, ...
Scammers are sending emails or text messages that offer patients a chance to claim a reward in the form of a MyChart Medicare ...