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- Title
Rural Access and Usage of Patient Portals: A 2019 Health Information National Trends Survey Analysis.
- Authors
Bhavsar, Grishma P.; Robertson, Ashley S.; Pena, Dalton
- Abstract
To examine differences in rural and urban respondents' use of and access to patient portals in the United States, this study used the 2019 National Cancer Institute's Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) 5, Cycle 3.A cross-sectional secondary data analysis utilizing jackknife weighting procedures was used to generalize the findings to be nationally representative.Despite similar rates of providers maintaining an electronic medical record system, adjusted analyses found that rural respondents had lower odds of being offered access to a patient portal by their healthcare provider (OR: 0.60; 95 percent CI: 0.39-0.91) and accessing their patient portals in the last 12 months (OR: 0.62; 95 percent CI: 0.43-0.91) when compared to their urban counterparts.Additional research is needed to determine effective strategies for overcoming geographic and structural barriers to adoption of this technology by rural residents.
- Subjects
UNITED States; STATISTICS; CONFIDENCE intervals; RURAL conditions; MANAGEMENT of medical records; CROSS-sectional method; POPULATION geography; RACE; SEX distribution; INTERNET access; ACCESS to information; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; CHI-squared test; DATA analysis software; ODDS ratio; LOGISTIC regression analysis; ELECTRONIC health records; SECONDARY analysis; EDUCATIONAL attainment
- Publication
Perspectives in Health Information Management, 2022, Vol 19, Issue 2, p102
- ISSN
1559-4122
- Publication type
Article