Lower Income Patients Often Lack Electronic Health Communication Access in Clinics

Electronic Health Communications Often Unavailable To Lower Income Patients.  MedicalXpress.  February 26, 2013.

While low income patients may use various electronic communications technologies in their daily lives, they may find the "safety net" clinics they frequent lacking a patient portal or secure messaging.  This study was focused on San Francisco and the diverse patient mix there.  There is little research of interest among lower income individuals nationally.  While electronic communications is becoming the norm in well-resourced settings, there should, according to the researcher, an effort to implement electronic communications in low-income settings.