Seventeen percent of respondents who don’t use online portals said they haven’t adopted them due to security concerns. Online portals can help patients keep track of their medical information, like ...
News Medical: Primary care: Patients value speedy portal responses over in-person appointments
Most patients are diagnosed at a far less treatable, later stage of the disease. And with about 20% of lung cancer deaths preventable, evidence-based screening recommendations for high-risk patients offer the best hope to catch the disease early and provide the best chance for effective treatment. A medical oncologist shares more.
Patient perspectives around data privacy The American Medical Association partnered with Savvy Cooperative, a patient-owned source of health care insights, to survey 1,000 patients across the U.S. on their perspectives toward the privacy of their medical information. We found that by understanding the patient perspective on data privacy, industry and government can better act to help patients ...
The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew ™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines. Anjali N. Patel, DO, a cognitive neurologist at the Atlantic Neuroscience Institute at Overlook Medical Center, took time to discuss what to know about Alzheimer’s disease.
Knowing how and when to use the patient portal can help improve patients’ outcomes and could lighten the workloads that contribute to physician burnout. The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew ™ series provides physicians with a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines.
News4Jax: ‘Shouldn’t happen in this day and age’: Patient says Baptist Health medical portal showed stranger’s private information
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Baptist Health patient says she was shocked to find another person’s private medical information in her online health portal, raising serious concerns about patient privacy and ...
‘Shouldn’t happen in this day and age’: Patient says Baptist Health medical portal showed stranger’s private information
Healthcare IT News: More patients accessed their medical records online in 2024
Law: Navigating the Digital Shift: Defending Medical Malpractice Claims in the Era of Patient Portals
Patients may be receiving test results or seeing physician clinical notes before a provider has the opportunity to review test results and educate the patient on the meaning of the medical information ...
Navigating the Digital Shift: Defending Medical Malpractice Claims in the Era of Patient Portals
Background: Many patients use patient portals to message their primary care clinician, but demand for in-person appointments remains high. Researchers from the University of Michigan examined how ...
ascopubs.org: When Bad News Comes Through the Portal: Strengthening Trust and Guiding Patients When They Receive Bad Results Before Their Clinicians
When Bad News Comes Through the Portal: Strengthening Trust and Guiding Patients When They Receive Bad Results Before Their Clinicians
News Medical: POLAR gene profile predicts which patients may and may not benefit from radiation therapy after breast-conserving surgery
For scheduling medical appointments, reminders, telehealth services, managing health records, billing, and navigating health insurance, assisting with care of the elderly. Suitable for apps connecting patients with healthcare providers or managing healthcare logistics.
Stay on top of the latest developments related to patient education. Browse the AMA’s patient education resources, full of information and tools that physicians can share with their patients, including educational handouts for patients and other patient education materials.
The discussion was moderated by William B. Jordan, MD, MPH, who is senior director of equity policy and transformation at the AMA Center for Health Equity. Panelists examined the quality of care older-adult physicians provide, how age-related biases affect older-adult physicians, and how ageism affects patients’ care experience.
Getting patients to make healthy lifestyle choices ranks high on every physician’s professional wish list. But realistically accomplishing this goal requires care teams to zero in on what really patients really want.
Practice Management Digital Make sure health AI works for patients and physicians The AMA House of Delegates outlines steps that must be taken to ensure the technology remains an asset, even as health AI keeps evolving.
Public Health Prevention & Wellness What doctors wish patients knew about iron deficiency One in three women under 50 is iron deficient, affecting about 10 million people in the U.S. Two physicians discuss iron deficiency and how to address it.
The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew ™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines.
For this installment, three AMA members took time to discuss what doctors wish patients knew about the potentially harmful effects of social media. They are: Nusheen Ameenuddin, MD, MPH, a pediatrician in Rochester, Minnesota, and chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Communications and Media.
The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew ™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines and how to take charge of their health through preventive care.
The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew ™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines. Three physicians took time to discuss what doctors wish patients knew about vitamins and nutritional supplements. They are: Pieter Cohen, MD, an internist in Somerville ...
Patients with Meniere’s disease “will have episodes of vertigo, usually lasting half an hour to a couple of hours that can be very intense and incapacitating and unpredictable, but they almost always have a symptom of hearing loss or ringing in their ear either immediately before or during the onset of vertigo,” he said.
The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew ™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines and how to take charge of their health through preventive care. For this installment, two AMA members shared what doctors wish patients knew about sodium consumption. They are:
There's been a crucial shift toward active, ongoing self-management of health and wellness among patients, according to the U.S. Health and Human Services' Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy ...
Communication in oncology was challenging long before the emergence of the US 21st Century Cures Act. Before 2021, a growing body of evidence had demonstrated the benefits of patients' access to and ...