Does patient portal access make a difference in referral access after a primary care appointment? According to one new study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), it ...

IntroductionWhen talking to patients, I try not to look at my notes.It is not because I remember everything I want to ask. I sometimes check my list of questions before the examination. Even so, I try ...

Black or Hispanic patients are more likely to read stigmatizing language in their patient portal clinical notes and less likely to read positive language than their White counterparts, according to a ...

Crafting the ideal patient progress note, at least judging from the literature, seems more easily achieved in theory than in execution. Since the late 2000s, when the electronic health record replaced ...

Patients overwhelmingly want access to the notes their physicians take during visits, according to one study that was recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. About 95 percent of ...

Patients with access to notes written by their doctors feel more in control of their care and report a better understanding of their medical issues, improved recall of their care plan and being more ...

When patients receive services from mental health professionals (MHPs), they have a right to informed consent (Barsky, 2023). Informed consent includes the right to understand what kinds of records ...

A new health informatics study found that clinical care documentation results in a high prevalence of text duplication and that systemic hazards require systemic interventions to fix. Earlier this ...

Many systems can strip identifiers from text, but the challenge is proving one works on real-world data at health-system scale to a standard regulators accept.

The researchers found that clinician notes about Hispanic/Latino and non-Hispanic Black patients had similarly higher odds of containing terms undermining credibility and lower odds of supporting ...