{"id":594724,"date":"2023-01-06T09:52:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T15:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/06\/report-confirms-racial-disparities-in-patient-access-to-their-health-data\/"},"modified":"2023-01-06T09:52:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T15:52:02","slug":"report-confirms-racial-disparities-in-patient-access-to-their-health-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/06\/report-confirms-racial-disparities-in-patient-access-to-their-health-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Report confirms racial disparities in patient access to their health data"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT examined the National Cancer Institute’s latest annual health information trends survey to identify racial and ethnic disparities in patient portal offers, access and use.<\/p>\n

WHY IT MATTERS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since 2003 the NCI’s Health Information National Trends Survey has collected nationally representative data about the American public\u2019s knowledge of, attitudes toward and use of health-related information in an effort to create more effective health communication strategies across different populations.<\/p>\n

Overall growth in patient portal engagement has been encouraging, but prior studies have identified persistent disparities in patients\u2019 access and use of online medical records, wrote study coauthor Chelsea Richwine, an economist with ONC’s Office of Technology, in Thursday’s\u00a0HealthITbuzz blog post<\/a>\u00a0summarizing the findings.<\/p>\n

Published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association<\/em>,\u00a0the ONC study<\/a>\u00a0by Richwine and her colleagues Christian Johnson and Vaishali Patel found that in 2019 and 2020, “black and Hispanic individuals were significantly less likely to report being offered and subsequently accessing their portal.”<\/p>\n

Black and Hispanic people were not offered (5.2 percentage points less likely) and did not access patient portals (7.9 percentage points less likely) nearly as often as white people.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After accounting for other patient engagement factors, such as age, gender, education or health status, the racial and ethnic disparities persisted, Richwine says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But when offered access, disparities largely diminished.\u00a0According to the JAMIA abstract, “individuals offered a portal and encouraged to use it by their providers “were 21 percentage points more likely to access it.”<\/p>\n

And, “black and Hispanic individuals who were offered and accessed a portal were 12 percentage points more likely than whites to use it to download or transmit information.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

THE LARGER TREND<\/strong><\/p>\n

Information-blocking rules now in effect have expanded the variety and types of data healthcare organizations are subject to under the 21st Century Cures Act, and there are still a lot of\u00a0misconceptions about requirements and how to comply<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While individuals have expressed privacy concerns, the majority of patients want to have their healthcare records readily available. Many say they want to\u00a0download their health data to mobile devices<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Richwine says to reap the full benefits of policies that increase access to electronic health information, the industry must establish information-sharing best practices, alleviate patient privacy and security concerns, and address access-related barriers to use.<\/p>\n

ON THE RECORD<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Taken together, our findings point to the important role of healthcare providers in increasing access to EHI by offering portals and encouraging their use,” Richwine said in her blog.<\/p>\n

Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
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Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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