Age, education and income level are not accurate indicators of patients’ willingness to adopt personal health records, according to a study published in the journal Perspectives in Health Information Management, FierceHealthIT reports.
Study Details
For the study, researchers from the University of Central Florida surveyed 562 patients at a physician practice that was considering offering PHRs.
The eight-question surveys aimed to evaluate patients’ perceived ability to:
Findings Related to Demographics
The study found that 74% of surveyed patients expressed willingness to use a PHR (Hall, FierceHealthIT, 10/15). It also found that:
The findings do not support the idea that older, less educated and lower-income patients would be less willing to adopt PHRs than other patients, according to FierceHealthIT.
Findings Related to Health Literacy
However, the study did identify differences between patients who were willing to use PHRs and those who said they would not use the tools. It found that:
Source: iHealthBeat
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