{"id":11493,"date":"2018-12-04T11:34:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T16:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=11493"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:40","slug":"most-patients-wary-unaware-of-benefits-of-using-health-portals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/12\/04\/most-patients-wary-unaware-of-benefits-of-using-health-portals\/","title":{"rendered":"Most patients wary, unaware of benefits of using health portals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11506\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11506\" class=\"wp-image-11506 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/most-patients-wary-unaware-of-benefits-of-using-health-portals-LEAD-e1545238119151.png\" alt=\"illustration of computer monitor with health care worker\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Kaitlyn Bukema, Michigan News)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Two-thirds of patients who visited a doctor in 2017 did not use a health portal that could help improve their health in the long run, according to a new study by U-M. Health portals\u2014secure online websites that give patients 24-hour access to health information\u2014can enhance patients\u2019 engagement in their own health, said lead author <strong>Denise Anthony<\/strong>, professor of health management and policy at U-M\u2019s School of Public Health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey ask more questions of doctors, they become more engaged in knowing about and keeping themselves healthy,\u201d she said. \u201cGiven these benefits, we wanted to look at who isn\u2019t using a patient portal. To make sure these technologies benefit all people, we first have to find out who is and is not using them.\u201d Researchers used data from the nationally representative 2017 Health Information National Trends Survey, limiting the study to those who had insurance and who had seen a doctor in the past 12 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-thirds of patients who visited a doctor in 2017 did not use a health portal that could help improve their health in the long run, according to a new study by U-M. Health portals\u2014secure online websites that give patients 24-hour access to health information\u2014can enhance patients\u2019 engagement in their own health, said lead author Denise Anthony, professor of\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/12\/04\/most-patients-wary-unaware-of-benefits-of-using-health-portals\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[217,489,51,481],"class_list":["post-11493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-culture","tag-health-care","tag-medical","tag-portal"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/most-patients-wary-unaware-of-benefits-of-using-health-portals-LEAD-e1545238119151.png",600,420,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/most-patients-wary-unaware-of-benefits-of-using-health-portals-LEAD-200x140.png",200,140,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/most-patients-wary-unaware-of-benefits-of-using-health-portals-LEAD-286x200.png",286,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/most-patients-wary-unaware-of-benefits-of-using-health-portals-LEAD-768x538.png",665,466,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/most-patients-wary-unaware-of-benefits-of-using-health-portals-LEAD-700x490.png",600,420,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/most-patients-wary-unaware-of-benefits-of-using-health-portals-LEAD-e1545238119151.png",600,420,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/most-patients-wary-unaware-of-benefits-of-using-health-portals-LEAD-e1545238119151.png",600,420,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/most-patients-wary-unaware-of-benefits-of-using-health-portals-LEAD-200x140.png",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/most-patients-wary-unaware-of-benefits-of-using-health-portals-LEAD-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/most-patients-wary-unaware-of-benefits-of-using-health-portals-LEAD-658x300.png",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/most-patients-wary-unaware-of-benefits-of-using-health-portals-LEAD-665x466.png",665,466,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/most-patients-wary-unaware-of-benefits-of-using-health-portals-LEAD-e1545238119151.png",357,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Two-thirds of patients who visited a doctor in 2017 did not use a health portal that could help improve their health in the long run, according to a new study by U-M. Health portals\u2014secure online websites that give patients 24-hour access to health information\u2014can enhance patients\u2019 engagement in their own health, said lead author Denise&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11493"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11524,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493\/revisions\/11524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}