ArticleApplied clinical informatics2016
Patient Experiences Using an Inpatient Personal Health Record.
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53 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Functionalities and Issues in the Implementation of Personal Health Records: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Pooled it
- What Do Patients and Caregivers Want? A Systematic Review of User Suggestions to Improve Patient Portals.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2020Pooled it
- Patient Portals Facilitating Engagement With Inpatient Electronic Medical Records: A Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2019Pooled it
- Inpatient Portals for Hospitalized Patients and Caregivers: A Systematic Review.Journal of hospital medicine · 2018Pooled it
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- A randomized controlled trial to improve engagement of hospitalized patients with their patient portals.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2018Trial
- Communicating with Vulnerable Patient Populations: A Randomized Intervention to Teach Inpatients to Use the Electronic Patient Portal.Applied clinical informatics · 2018Trial
- Engaging hospitalized patients in clinical care: Study protocol for a pragmatic randomized controlled trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2016Trial
- Electronic health records in patient care: strengths, facilitators, challenges, and future directions-a scoping review.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Integrating Artificial Intelligence, Electronic Health Records, and Wearables for Predictive, Patient-Centered Decision Support in Healthcare.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Investigation of the causal relationship between patient portal utilization and patient's self-care self-efficacy and satisfaction in care among patients with cancer.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2025Article
- Proximity care pathways and digitalization: opportunities and concerns for medication safety management-Insights from the ProSafe study on community perspectives.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Exploring Patient, Proxy, and Clinician Perspectives on the Value and Impact of an Inpatient Portal: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis.JMIR human factors · 2024Article
- Impact of encounters on patient app use: results of a tethered mobile personal health record usage pattern analysis.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Evaluation of Patient-Friendly Diagnosis Clarifications in a Hospital Patient Portal.Applied clinical informatics · 2023Article
- A systematic review of the effectiveness of patient education through patient portals.JAMIA open · 2023Review
- Physicians' Perspectives on Inpatient Portals: Systematic Review.Interactive journal of medical research · 2022Review
- Improving transparency in hospitals: perspectives on implementing an inpatient portal.Future healthcare journal · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo investigate patients' experience using an inpatient personal health record (PHR) on a tablet computer to increase engagement in their hospital care.
methodsWe performed observations and conducted semi-structured interviews with 14 post-operative cardiac surgical patients and their family members who received an inpatient PHR. Themes were identified using an inductive coding scheme.
resultsAll participants responded favorably to having access to view their clinical information. A majority (85.7%) of participants used the application following an initial training session. Patients reported high satisfaction with being able to view their hospital medications and access educational materials related to their medical conditions. Patients reported a desire to view daily progress reports about their hospital stay and have access to educational information about their post-acute recovery. In addition, patients expressed a common desire to view their diagnoses, laboratory test results, radiology reports, and procedure notes in language that is patient-friendly.
conclusionPatients have unmet information needs in the hospital setting. Our findings suggest that for some inpatients and their family members, providing personalized health information through a tablet computer may improve satisfaction, decrease anxiety, increase understanding of their health conditions, and improve safety and quality of care.
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