Comments on: Does anyone else hate patient portals like I do?

By: Abraham Franklin

Abraham Franklin — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 12:37:00 +0000

“ test results in one place and accessible”

Paradise for hackers, Big Tech, and Big Brother

By: R2L

R2L — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:11:32 +0000

Neo, now maybe you should provide a post discussing people’s experience with the IRS or similar government web sites/ portals?

I have been pretty happy with the IRS site for the last few years. Even more so once I found their web site where they put the draft version of forms before they release them formally for the next tax year.
https://www.irs.gov/draft-tax-forms
And the ability to make tax payments via electronic funds transfers from my bank beats the old check and letter routine. [The faster you pay, the less pain you feel in the wallet?]

By: Faith2014

Faith2014 — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 00:21:59 +0000

I love my patient portal. I had a question about something, used the ‘contact your doctor’ feature and expected nothing. I had an answer before the end of day. Not from my dr but a nurse, but that was fine.

No spam from my account either.

By: Oligonicella

Oligonicella — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 17:47:52 +0000

Patient portal works for me. Then again they don’t do the “Brush your teeth.” pap, just appointments and confirmations. Very minimal and calling by phone gets the receptionist, submitting questions gets a response from same.

It might be your doctor’s office, not the portal. Try telling them to restrict the ‘prompting’ messages.

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 13:31:56 +0000

AesopFan @3:51 a.m., and other women here who are, ahem, getting older, even if you’ve dropped your OB/GYN, I do hope you haven’t dropped having those pelvic exams and pap smears. Medicare advises women over 65 that they don’t need pap smears any more. The GYN I still see annually disagrees, and does them for me every other year, coding it so Medicare will pay. There’s good reason for this. My daughter’s mother-in-law, age about 72, was diagnosed with Stage IIB cervical cancer. Following the “expert” advice, she hadn’t had a pap smear in six or seven years. She’s had chemo, radiation, and major abdominal surgery, and we hope she’s okay, but her chances with that diagnosis were about 50%.

By: T Migratorious

T Migratorious — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 12:55:57 +0000

Interestingly I successfully used a patient portal yesterday to promptly resolve a question. I recently had some lab tests (prep for an annual physical) and the results were posted on the portal. Subsequently I received a phone message from my doctor’s assistant saying she wanted to discuss my results with me–nothing more specific than that. Gee, thanks! Good thing I’m not the nervous type or I would have been quite worried.

I had just missed the call and called back immediately. I was on hold for 30 minutes before finally giving up. This has consistently been my experience with this practice, which I otherwise like. It is virtually impossible to talk directly to medical personnel and they won’t impart any information in a phone message or text.

I’d reviewed the lab results and was pretty sure I knew what the issue was so I used to patient portal to ask if I was right and suggest a response. I got a fairly prompt reply and, since my guess as to the issue was correct, a quick resolution.

Using the portal took less time than my unsuccessful phone call.

BTW, I am a senior and not at all intimidated by technology. The portal is clunky, but it’s far superior to the almost useless phone-tag approach that seems ingrained at my doctor’s.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 08:51:07 +0000

@ Chases Eagles > “wanted to know why an old man’s PCP is an obstetrician.”

Well, given that some men have uteruses now, that’s a legitimate question.
However, anyone past menopause age should have dropped their OB/GYN, so maybe they were worried about mis-aging you.

By: huxley

huxley — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 05:47:17 +0000

Re: ChatGPT 4

We’re just good friends.

By: huxley

huxley — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 05:37:31 +0000

Rufus:

Won’t you please join my cult?

(Big sad eyes.)

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 05:30:28 +0000

Ants Imperium.
And I foolishly thought AI stood for Artificial Intelligence.