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- Title
Acute care patient portals: a qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives on current practices.
- Authors
Collins, Sarah A.; Rozenblum, Ronen; Wai Yin Leung; Morrison, Constance R. C.; Stade, Diana L.; McNally, Kelly; Bourie, Patricia Q.; Massaro, Anthony; Bokser, Seth; Dwyer, Cindy; Greysen, Ryan S.; Agarwal, Priyanka; Thornton, Kevin; Dalal, Anuj K.; Leung, Wai Yin; Morrison, Constance Rc
- Abstract
<bold>Objective: </bold>To describe current practices and stakeholder perspectives of patient portals in the acute care setting. We aimed to: (1) identify key features, (2) recognize challenges, (3) understand current practices for design, configuration, and use, and (4) propose new directions for investigation and innovation.<bold>Materials and Methods: </bold>Mixed methods including surveys, interviews, focus groups, and site visits with stakeholders at leading academic medical centers. Thematic analyses to inform development of an explanatory model and recommendations.<bold>Results: </bold>Site surveys were administered to 5 institutions. Thirty interviews/focus groups were conducted at 4 site visits that included a total of 84 participants. Ten themes regarding content and functionality, engagement and culture, and access and security were identified, from which an explanatory model of current practices was developed. Key features included clinical data, messaging, glossary, patient education, patient personalization and family engagement tools, and tiered displays. Four actionable recommendations were identified by group consensus.<bold>Discussion: </bold>Design, development, and implementation of acute care patient portals should consider: (1) providing a single integrated experience across care settings, (2) humanizing the patient-clinician relationship via personalization tools, (3) providing equitable access, and (4) creating a clear organizational mission and strategy to achieve outcomes of interest.<bold>Conclusion: </bold>Portals should provide a single integrated experience across the inpatient and ambulatory settings. Core functionality includes tools that facilitate communication, personalize the patient, and deliver education to advance safe, coordinated, and dignified patient-centered care. Our findings can be used to inform a "road map" for future work related to acute care patient portals.
- Subjects
MEDICAL records; ACUTE medical care; ACCESS to information; WEBSITE security; PATIENT education; COMPUTER network resources
- Publication
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2017, Vol 24, Issue e1, pe9
- ISSN
1067-5027
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1093/jamia/ocw081