Becker's Healthcare April 9, 2019
Stage 2 meaningful use likely helped increase patient portal use, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Historically, providers have had difficulty getting patient portals to catch on. Separate research published in January found 63 percent of insured patients have not used an online portal to communicate with their provider in the past year. Reasons for not using the portal varied, but the most common reason was that patients prefer to speak directly to their physicians.
For the new study in JAMIA, researchers wanted to...
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