Many patients benefit from accessing their digital clinical notes, but significant disparities exist among groups that look at them.
Black and Hispanic patients, those who do not use English as a preferred language, and single men all have a significantly lower likelihood of opening their clinical notes.
“Clinicians should be encouraging patients to take advantage of these kinds of technologies,” Gilad Kuperman, MD, PhD, adjunct professor in the department of biomedical informatics at Columbia University, told Healio.
“Health care is becoming increasingly digital. It already is, to a large