However, the role of health care provider support for patients to access the portal once offered significantly influenced the use of the portal by patients vs a patient only being offered the portal.

Billing for patient portal messaging became a hot topic late last year when Cleveland Clinic started charging up to $50 for messages meeting similar criteria to UCSF Health’s e-visits.

UnityPoint Health patients will be charged for some messages they send to providers that require "a provider's clinical time and medical expertise," the health care provider said. COPYRIGHT 2023 ...

Patient portals that provide secure online access to medical record information and provider communication can improve health care. Yet new technologies can exacerbate existing disparities. We ...

In 2019, before the start of the pandemic, Henry Ford Health said it received 286,302 electronic portal messages from patients seeking medical advice. That number nearly quadrupled in 2020, to ...

But this year, DC Health is rolling out a portal for providers that will generate an electronic universal health certificate, or e-UHC. “Providers can log on to the DC Health provider portal ...

The portal helps knock down barriers to care and provides for rapid, secure communication between patients and their care providers. The portal allows patients to send a private, secure message to ...