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Patient use of their health information accessible to them through online tools (e.g., patient portals and smartphone apps) can help empower them to make informed decisions about their health and track progress on health-related goals, potentially resulting in improved patient outcomes (1). Enabling patients to access and use the information contained in online medical records and patient ...
- Patient Portals: Who uses them? What features do they use ...
Therefore, among patients discharged from the hospital with...
- Barriers to Patient Portal Access and Use: Evidence from the ...
Patient engagement is a top priority for US healthcare...
- Patient Portals: Who uses them? What features do they use ...
- Patient Portals
- Patient Portal Provincial Service Standards
- Patient Portal Provincial Implementation Guide
Patient portals give patients safe and secure online access to their personal health information and the ability to manage aspects of their own health care. They also can help patients and clinical teams interact in a more meaningful way to create better patient outcomes. The provincial service standards and implementation guide together help Ontar...
This document outlines standards that are mandatory, recommended, and those for future consideration. The purpose of the standards is to help Ontario Health regions, Ontario Health Teams, and other health care organizations, facilitate the expansion or selection and implementation of digital patient portal solutions. View the Patient Portal Provinc...
This guide is for health care organizations, including Ontario Health Teams, seeking to implement a patient portal. It supports an organization’s education and decision-making before procuring and implementing a patient portal solution. View the Patient Portal Provincial Implementation Guide Opens in a new window
Therefore, among patients discharged from the hospital with CHF, AMI, or pneumonia, we aimed to: (1) identify patient characteristics associated with the use a patient portal, (2) determine the frequency with which common patient portal features are used; (3) examine whether the level of patient portal use (non-users, light users, active users) is associated with 30-day readmission.
Jun 17, 2022 · Messages should be short. If a patient portal message is longer, perhaps “more than 100 characters—it needs an appointment,” said Dr. Brown. “It is probably useful to think of using communication through the portal in a way that you might use” text messaging, said Dr. Sinsky. “Use it for something very brief, and you acknowledge ...
Aug 4, 2018 · Quebec patients will soon have access to medical records online. That includes a summary of a patient's "social, family, medical and surgical history; substance use; current medications; previous ...
Patient engagement is a top priority for US healthcare systems. 1 The adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) is a system-level strategy to involve patients in their healthcare and increase their ability to make informed decisions. 2,3 EHRs have tethered patient portals (PPs) where healthcare providers provide patients around-the-clock access to their health information (cf: personal ...
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It gives your health care team, including family doctor, nurses, emergency room clinicians and specialists, real-time access to your relevant medical information, so they can provide the best care for you. As a patient, you - or your substitute decision maker - have the right to access a copy of your personal health information.
