Meaningful use and the patient portal: patient enrollment, use, and satisfaction with patient portals at a later-adopting center.

ABSTRACT: Many physicians are adopting patient portals in response to governmental incentives for meaningful use (MU), but the stage 2 requirements for portal use may be particularly challenging for newer electronic health record (EHR) users. This study examined enrollment, use based on MU requirements, and satisfaction in a recently adopting fee-for-service multispecialty system. Between 2010 and 2012, overall portal enrollment increased from 13.2% to 23.1% but varied substantially by physician specialty. In 2013, more than 97% of physicians would have met requirements for a stage 2 MU utilization measure requiring that patients download personal health information, but only 38% of all physicians (87% of primary care physicians [PCPs] and 37% of other specialists) would have met e-mail requirements

SUBMITTER: Neuner J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4141030 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature