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NOVEMBER 7, 2017

With Patient Portals, If You Build It, Will They Come?

Even the best patient engagement technology can fall flat if the target audience still struggles with limited broadband internet access.

That’s the take-home message from a study of nearly 250,000 patients seen in the outpatient clinics of a health system in Northeast Ohio, ranked in the top 3% for the quality of its health information technology. The investigators, from The MetroHealth System and Case Western Reserve University, both in Cleveland, found that less than one-third of