Yahoo News July 11, 2023
Bryan Steitz, Instructor in Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University and CT Lin, Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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Patients overwhelmingly prefer to see their medical test results online immediately, even if that means viewing results before discussing them with a health care professional. These are the key findings from our team’s recent study, published in JAMA Network Open. Importantly, this preference remains true for patients who received results with abnormal or potentially concerning findings.
We carried out this study to understand how patients are affected by new legislation to prevent information blocking and provide patients complete access to all of their electronic health information. The...