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 ...

More patients are accessing their medical records online via patient portals or apps and are doing so more often than in years past, according to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT ...

The new portal is built using foundation models from OpenAI, the maker of popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, Oracle said in a press release. The tool could be used to describe medical jargon, like explaining ...

Patient engagement with electronic health information through online medical records or patient portals spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, but racial and ethnic disparities persisted, according to a ...

To track the use of web-based patient portals and smartphone applications by patients seeking their health information, the U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released an analysis ...

AI can summarize and simplify complex medical information and enable patients to ask questions to quickly get information, such as the results of a recent lab test The AI-powered patient portal is ...

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 ...

A banner on the Vanderbilt Health website Monday morning alerted patients and the medical community to service disruptions ...

Health literacy plays a key role in patient engagement, and it may contribute to wider health disparities among older adults. A study from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in ...

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 ...

For many busy families, online access to a child's health provider for medical advice, health records or prescription refills is likely a convenient option. Yet, only 43% of parents have set their ...

Patients often wonder why they have to repeat information already in the chart. The answer reveals why AI may become ...