News Report | October 28, 2018
Two-Thirds Of Adults With Chronic Illness Use Online Health Portals
About 64% of adults age 45 and older with at least two chronic illness used online portals set up by their physicians. About 30% used the secure messaging feature. About 1.6% used the data entry function of the portal.
These findings were reported in “Predictors and patterns of portal use in patients with multiple chronic conditions” by Kimberly R Powell and Chelsea Deroche. The study was conducted at a large primary care organization located in the Southeast US. This primary care organization has over 300,000 active consumers and has been using AllScripts FollowMyHealthVR patient portal since 2014. The . . .