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Patient portal preferences: Perspectives on imaging information

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: Patient portals have the potential to provide content that is specifically tailored to a patient's information needs based on diagnoses and other factors. In this work, we conducted a survey of 41 lung cancer patients at an outpatient lung cancer clinic at the medical center of the University of California Los Angeles, to gain insight into these perceived information needs and opinions on the design of a portal to fulfill them. We found that patients requested access to information related to diagnosis and imaging, with more than half of the patients reporting that they did not anticipate an increase in anxiety due to access to medical record information via a portal. We also found that patient educational background did not lead to a significant difference in desires for explanations of reports and definitions of terms.

Source: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

DOI: 10.1002/asi.23269

Authors: Mary McNamara, Corey Arnold, Karthik Sarma, Denise Aberle, Edward Garon, Alex A. T. Bui

Institution: University of California, Los Angeles

Language: English

Topic: Electronic Health Records Systems

Subfield: Health Information Management

Field: Health Professions

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: Kaiser Permanente, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, U.S. National Library of Medicine