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Patient Portals: Part 3 – The Future of Portals

By | December 5, 2019
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mobile phone showing types of patient medical records information such as medications and tests

Welcome to the final post in our series on patient portals – an attempt to imagine the future. Part 1 of this series summarized the latest data on who is using portals. Part 2 explained some of the barriers to use as well as what factors increase use. Evidence of Increased Patient Engagement and Other… Read More »

Patient Portals: Part 2 – What Factors Affect Patient Use?

By | November 22, 2019
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mobile phone showing types of patient medical records information such as medications and tests

In Part 1 of this series, I summarized the latest data on who is accessing patient portals and for what purposes. In this post, I discuss the facilitators and barriers to patient portal use. General barriers to patient portal use Let’s start by discussing barriers to portal use. Patient portals have generally not been created to… Read More »