Insights Into Older Adult Patient Concerns Around the Caregiver Proxy Portal Use: Qualitative Interview Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Electronic patient portals have become common and offer many potential benefits for patients' self-management of health care. These benefits could be especially important for older adult patients dealing with significant chronic illness, many of whom have caregivers, such as a spouse, adult child, or other family member or friend, who help with health care management. Patient portals commonly contain large amounts of personal information, including diagnoses, health histories, medications, specialist appointments, lab results, and billing and insurance information. Some health care systems provide proxy accounts for caregivers to access a portal on behalf of a patient. It is not well known how much and in what way caregivers are using patient portals on behalf of patient

SUBMITTER: Latulipe C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6240158 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature