Duke Health said a lawsuit claiming its patient portal shares patient data with Facebook should be tossed because the patients haven’t shown their privacy was violated, according to a motion filed ...

July 25--Across Northeast Mississippi, patient portals are opening online access to doctors and hospitals. "We do everything online, book airline tickets, paying bills," said Tupelo family physician ...

The complaint, filed in 2022, accused the North Carolina-based healthcare system of violating patient privacy.

Patient portals were supposed to be healthcare’s digital front door. But what’s the use of a door if nobody opens it? After years of investments in portal technology, patient adoption remains dismally ...

It is vital to prioritize appropriate confidentiality protection in patient portals, according to researchers. Some young adults are hesitant to open a patient portal account and may limit the ...

Online portal messages from patients more than doubled between 2020 and 2025, researchers reported June 22 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. At least 12% of patients now use these ...

Patient portals that provide secure online access to medical record information and provider communication can improve health care. Yet new technologies can exacerbate existing disparities. We ...

Meta Platforms is facing a potential class-action lawsuit for allegedly using its Pixel tracking tool to get patient information from hospital portals for target marketing purposes. The plaintiff, ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights has released two new patient privacy resources that healthcare organizations can use to educate patients about reducing their ...

Older Americans are increasingly likely to log into "patient portals" to access their healthcare information -- but confidence levels vary. About 78% of people aged 50 to 80 now use at least one ...

Electronic patient portals provide secure access to health information but require technological proficiency and appropriate devices for effective use. Portals are useful for non-urgent communication ...