Disparities in Secure Messaging Uptake Between Patients and Physicians: Longitudinal Analysis of Two National Cross-Sectional Surveys.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Emails securely exchanged between patients and clinicians offer the promise of improved access to care and indirectly improved health outcomes. Yet research to date is mixed on who-among both patients and clinicians-is using secure messaging. OBJECTIVE:Using data from two large nationally representative cross-sectional surveys, this study aimed to compare the prevalence of secure messaging use among patients and their access to the functionality through their physicians, and to explore the clinical practice and physician characteristics and patient sociodemographic characteristics associated with the use of secure messaging. METHODS:We conducted regression analyses to identity statistical associations between self-reported secure messaging use and access, and the patient, practi

SUBMITTER: Heisey-Grove DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7229528 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature