The patient portal launched in July 2007 at the Mayo Clinic was running smoothly until bedlam broke loose last December. The Medfusion system was on overload due to the software company's rapid growth ...

Patients with access to the Epic patient portal can view articles, slideshows and videos on more than 4,000 clinical topics, including symptoms, conditions, diseases and healthy living resources, with ...

If 45 percent of patients with hypertension are already measuring blood pressure at home, and an increasing number of patients now have access to communication with their doctors via a secure patient ...

The Mayo Clinic has upgraded its online Mayo Clinic Health Manager to help patients better manage their health. "Our new features help people suffering from hypertension and high cholesterol better ...

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic researchers say patient portal messages have declined after the system began billing the interactions as e-visits, according to a study published in the Annals of ...

ROCHESTER — Starting Friday, Aug. 18, Mayo Clinic will begin charging patients for some online conversations with their health care provider. "This change recognizes that the way patients are choosing ...

After three hours of difficult labor, the new mother had a vaginal injury unlike any that Dr. Michael Brown had seen before. It wasn’t life threatening, but it was uncomfortable. The obstetrician ...

In the vein of self-checkout at Target or self check-in at the airport, Mayo Clinic will turn on 51 patient check-in kiosks throughout its Rochester campus on Saturday. The stand-alone interactive ...

Patient engagement is all the rage now days; almost every healthcare facility is implementing or planning to implement some form of a patient portal to meet the needs of meaningful use. The portals do ...