Do patient portals increase patient engagement?

Do patient portals increase patient engagement?

Wikipedia defines patient portals as “… healthcare-related online applications that allow patients to interact and communicate with their healthcare providers. Some patient portal applications exist as stand-alone websites and sell their services to healthcare providers. Other portal applications are integrated into the existing web site of a healthcare provider. Still others are modules added onto an existing electronic medical record system. What all of these services share is the ability of patients to interact with their medical information via the Internet …”When Stage 2 of the HITECH Act’s Meaningful Use was announced, the American Hospital

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