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Proposal Defense: Improving Patient Portal Adoption In Primary Care, Melissa Wagner
Proposal Defense: Improving Patient Portal Adoption In Primary Care, Melissa Wagner
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Introduction: Stage three of Meaningful Use (MU) is currently underway and is focused on promoting patient portal use. If the electronic medical record patient portal use is less than 25%, primary care providers face reductions in value-based reimbursements. National adoption rates from portal use remain under 27% with some providers averaging well below the needed 25%. The following practice question is proposed, “In a low-income urban adult clinic, how does an interactive electronic education intervention compared to no education intervention affect patient portal adoption rates?”
Objectives: The purpose of this project is to identify whether an electronic patient educational video …