This appeared last week:Study: Online portals fall short on offering context, explanations for test results by Paige Minemyer Dec 13, 2017 11:20am Patients often do online searches to understand test results posted in portals, according to a new study.Patients can, and often do, access test results and other healthcare information through online portals, but more work could be done to help them understand what the results mean, according to a new study. Researchers interviewed 95 patients who had accessed test results through a patient portal between April 2015 and September 2016, according to data published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Close to two-thirds (63%) of those interviewed did not receive any additional explanation on the results through the portal. Nearly half (46%) then looked online for interpretation of the test results, and 51% discussed the results with friends and family instead of...
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