Long-term Patterns of Patient Portal Use for Pediatric Patients at an Academic Medical Center

Conclusion: Pediatric patients and caregivers have avidly used messaging, test result, and appointment functions. The majority of access was done by surrogates. Adolescent portal usage increased with age. Most accounts for pediatric patients were only used actively for a few years, with peak usage for patients in early childhood and late adolescence....
Source: Applied Clinical Informatics - Category: Information Technology Source Type: research