Have you ever ever despatched your physician a query by means of a web based affected person portal? The kind of response you get might differ relying in your race, a current examine suggests.
For the examine, printed in JAMA Community Open Monday, researchers examined affected person portal message responses from greater than 39,000 sufferers at Boston Medical Heart in 2021, together with the charges at which medical recommendation requests had been responded to and the varieties of well being care professionals that responded.
“When sufferers who belong to minoritized racial and ethnic teams despatched these messages, the probability of receiving any care staff response was related, however the varieties of well being care professionals that responded differed,” the authors wrote.
Black sufferers had been practically 4 proportion factors much less prone to obtain a response from an attending doctor, and about 3 proportion factors extra prone to obtain a response from a registered nurse.
“Comparable, however smaller, variations had been noticed for Asian and Hispanic sufferers,” the authors added.
Why is that this taking place? The examine factors to a number of prospects, starting from implicit bias to message content material and doctor time constraints.
Since sufferers’ emailed questions are usually seen first by a triaging nurse, researchers say there may be concern that messages from minority sufferers are “much less prone to be prioritized for doctor response.”
Affected person “well being literacy” may additionally play a task, the authors urged. Private well being literacy is described by the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention as “the diploma to which people have the power to search out, perceive, and use data and companies to tell health-related selections and actions for themselves and others.”
“Decrease well being literacy might affect the varieties of requests sufferers make by means of the portal and the style through which these requests are communicated,” the authors write.
Acquiring truthful and environment friendly entry to well being care has been a longstanding situation for Black folks within the U.S.
“Our system in America just isn’t constructed to serve everybody equally, and the well being care system just isn’t resistant to that,” emergency room physician Leigh-Ann Webb, an assistant professor of emergency medication on the College of Virginia, beforehand informed CBS Information.
Black Individuals are considerably extra doubtless than White folks to endure from continual well being circumstances like diabetes and bronchial asthma, have the best mortality price for all cancers in comparison with every other racial group, and have an toddler mortality price that is practically twice the nationwide common. Black ladies are additionally roughly 3 times extra doubtless than White ladies to die throughout childbirth, in response to the CDC.
And whereas developments in well being care know-how, such because the use of AI, may assist enhance care, some consultants fear these methods may amplify the racial bias that has persevered in medical look after generations.
-Li Cohen and the Related Press contributed reporting.
Have you ever ever despatched your physician a query by means of a web based affected person portal? The kind of response you get might differ relying in your race, a current examine suggests.
For the examine, printed in JAMA Community Open Monday, researchers examined affected person portal message responses from greater than 39,000 sufferers at Boston Medical Heart in 2021, together with the charges at which medical recommendation requests had been responded to and the varieties of well being care professionals that responded.
“When sufferers who belong to minoritized racial and ethnic teams despatched these messages, the probability of receiving any care staff response was related, however the varieties of well being care professionals that responded differed,” the authors wrote.
Black sufferers had been practically 4 proportion factors much less prone to obtain a response from an attending doctor, and about 3 proportion factors extra prone to obtain a response from a registered nurse.
“Comparable, however smaller, variations had been noticed for Asian and Hispanic sufferers,” the authors added.
Why is that this taking place? The examine factors to a number of prospects, starting from implicit bias to message content material and doctor time constraints.
Since sufferers’ emailed questions are usually seen first by a triaging nurse, researchers say there may be concern that messages from minority sufferers are “much less prone to be prioritized for doctor response.”
Affected person “well being literacy” may additionally play a task, the authors urged. Private well being literacy is described by the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention as “the diploma to which people have the power to search out, perceive, and use data and companies to tell health-related selections and actions for themselves and others.”
“Decrease well being literacy might affect the varieties of requests sufferers make by means of the portal and the style through which these requests are communicated,” the authors write.
Acquiring truthful and environment friendly entry to well being care has been a longstanding situation for Black folks within the U.S.
“Our system in America just isn’t constructed to serve everybody equally, and the well being care system just isn’t resistant to that,” emergency room physician Leigh-Ann Webb, an assistant professor of emergency medication on the College of Virginia, beforehand informed CBS Information.
Black Individuals are considerably extra doubtless than White folks to endure from continual well being circumstances like diabetes and bronchial asthma, have the best mortality price for all cancers in comparison with every other racial group, and have an toddler mortality price that is practically twice the nationwide common. Black ladies are additionally roughly 3 times extra doubtless than White ladies to die throughout childbirth, in response to the CDC.
And whereas developments in well being care know-how, such because the use of AI, may assist enhance care, some consultants fear these methods may amplify the racial bias that has persevered in medical look after generations.
-Li Cohen and the Related Press contributed reporting.
Have you ever ever despatched your physician a query by means of a web based affected person portal? The kind of response you get might differ relying in your race, a current examine suggests.
For the examine, printed in JAMA Community Open Monday, researchers examined affected person portal message responses from greater than 39,000 sufferers at Boston Medical Heart in 2021, together with the charges at which medical recommendation requests had been responded to and the varieties of well being care professionals that responded.
“When sufferers who belong to minoritized racial and ethnic teams despatched these messages, the probability of receiving any care staff response was related, however the varieties of well being care professionals that responded differed,” the authors wrote.
Black sufferers had been practically 4 proportion factors much less prone to obtain a response from an attending doctor, and about 3 proportion factors extra prone to obtain a response from a registered nurse.
“Comparable, however smaller, variations had been noticed for Asian and Hispanic sufferers,” the authors added.
Why is that this taking place? The examine factors to a number of prospects, starting from implicit bias to message content material and doctor time constraints.
Since sufferers’ emailed questions are usually seen first by a triaging nurse, researchers say there may be concern that messages from minority sufferers are “much less prone to be prioritized for doctor response.”
Affected person “well being literacy” may additionally play a task, the authors urged. Private well being literacy is described by the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention as “the diploma to which people have the power to search out, perceive, and use data and companies to tell health-related selections and actions for themselves and others.”
“Decrease well being literacy might affect the varieties of requests sufferers make by means of the portal and the style through which these requests are communicated,” the authors write.
Acquiring truthful and environment friendly entry to well being care has been a longstanding situation for Black folks within the U.S.
“Our system in America just isn’t constructed to serve everybody equally, and the well being care system just isn’t resistant to that,” emergency room physician Leigh-Ann Webb, an assistant professor of emergency medication on the College of Virginia, beforehand informed CBS Information.
Black Individuals are considerably extra doubtless than White folks to endure from continual well being circumstances like diabetes and bronchial asthma, have the best mortality price for all cancers in comparison with every other racial group, and have an toddler mortality price that is practically twice the nationwide common. Black ladies are additionally roughly 3 times extra doubtless than White ladies to die throughout childbirth, in response to the CDC.
And whereas developments in well being care know-how, such because the use of AI, may assist enhance care, some consultants fear these methods may amplify the racial bias that has persevered in medical look after generations.
-Li Cohen and the Related Press contributed reporting.
Have you ever ever despatched your physician a query by means of a web based affected person portal? The kind of response you get might differ relying in your race, a current examine suggests.
For the examine, printed in JAMA Community Open Monday, researchers examined affected person portal message responses from greater than 39,000 sufferers at Boston Medical Heart in 2021, together with the charges at which medical recommendation requests had been responded to and the varieties of well being care professionals that responded.
“When sufferers who belong to minoritized racial and ethnic teams despatched these messages, the probability of receiving any care staff response was related, however the varieties of well being care professionals that responded differed,” the authors wrote.
Black sufferers had been practically 4 proportion factors much less prone to obtain a response from an attending doctor, and about 3 proportion factors extra prone to obtain a response from a registered nurse.
“Comparable, however smaller, variations had been noticed for Asian and Hispanic sufferers,” the authors added.
Why is that this taking place? The examine factors to a number of prospects, starting from implicit bias to message content material and doctor time constraints.
Since sufferers’ emailed questions are usually seen first by a triaging nurse, researchers say there may be concern that messages from minority sufferers are “much less prone to be prioritized for doctor response.”
Affected person “well being literacy” may additionally play a task, the authors urged. Private well being literacy is described by the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention as “the diploma to which people have the power to search out, perceive, and use data and companies to tell health-related selections and actions for themselves and others.”
“Decrease well being literacy might affect the varieties of requests sufferers make by means of the portal and the style through which these requests are communicated,” the authors write.
Acquiring truthful and environment friendly entry to well being care has been a longstanding situation for Black folks within the U.S.
“Our system in America just isn’t constructed to serve everybody equally, and the well being care system just isn’t resistant to that,” emergency room physician Leigh-Ann Webb, an assistant professor of emergency medication on the College of Virginia, beforehand informed CBS Information.
Black Individuals are considerably extra doubtless than White folks to endure from continual well being circumstances like diabetes and bronchial asthma, have the best mortality price for all cancers in comparison with every other racial group, and have an toddler mortality price that is practically twice the nationwide common. Black ladies are additionally roughly 3 times extra doubtless than White ladies to die throughout childbirth, in response to the CDC.
And whereas developments in well being care know-how, such because the use of AI, may assist enhance care, some consultants fear these methods may amplify the racial bias that has persevered in medical look after generations.
-Li Cohen and the Related Press contributed reporting.
Have you ever ever despatched your physician a query by means of a web based affected person portal? The kind of response you get might differ relying in your race, a current examine suggests.
For the examine, printed in JAMA Community Open Monday, researchers examined affected person portal message responses from greater than 39,000 sufferers at Boston Medical Heart in 2021, together with the charges at which medical recommendation requests had been responded to and the varieties of well being care professionals that responded.
“When sufferers who belong to minoritized racial and ethnic teams despatched these messages, the probability of receiving any care staff response was related, however the varieties of well being care professionals that responded differed,” the authors wrote.
Black sufferers had been practically 4 proportion factors much less prone to obtain a response from an attending doctor, and about 3 proportion factors extra prone to obtain a response from a registered nurse.
“Comparable, however smaller, variations had been noticed for Asian and Hispanic sufferers,” the authors added.
Why is that this taking place? The examine factors to a number of prospects, starting from implicit bias to message content material and doctor time constraints.
Since sufferers’ emailed questions are usually seen first by a triaging nurse, researchers say there may be concern that messages from minority sufferers are “much less prone to be prioritized for doctor response.”
Affected person “well being literacy” may additionally play a task, the authors urged. Private well being literacy is described by the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention as “the diploma to which people have the power to search out, perceive, and use data and companies to tell health-related selections and actions for themselves and others.”
“Decrease well being literacy might affect the varieties of requests sufferers make by means of the portal and the style through which these requests are communicated,” the authors write.
Acquiring truthful and environment friendly entry to well being care has been a longstanding situation for Black folks within the U.S.
“Our system in America just isn’t constructed to serve everybody equally, and the well being care system just isn’t resistant to that,” emergency room physician Leigh-Ann Webb, an assistant professor of emergency medication on the College of Virginia, beforehand informed CBS Information.
Black Individuals are considerably extra doubtless than White folks to endure from continual well being circumstances like diabetes and bronchial asthma, have the best mortality price for all cancers in comparison with every other racial group, and have an toddler mortality price that is practically twice the nationwide common. Black ladies are additionally roughly 3 times extra doubtless than White ladies to die throughout childbirth, in response to the CDC.
And whereas developments in well being care know-how, such because the use of AI, may assist enhance care, some consultants fear these methods may amplify the racial bias that has persevered in medical look after generations.
-Li Cohen and the Related Press contributed reporting.
Have you ever ever despatched your physician a query by means of a web based affected person portal? The kind of response you get might differ relying in your race, a current examine suggests.
For the examine, printed in JAMA Community Open Monday, researchers examined affected person portal message responses from greater than 39,000 sufferers at Boston Medical Heart in 2021, together with the charges at which medical recommendation requests had been responded to and the varieties of well being care professionals that responded.
“When sufferers who belong to minoritized racial and ethnic teams despatched these messages, the probability of receiving any care staff response was related, however the varieties of well being care professionals that responded differed,” the authors wrote.
Black sufferers had been practically 4 proportion factors much less prone to obtain a response from an attending doctor, and about 3 proportion factors extra prone to obtain a response from a registered nurse.
“Comparable, however smaller, variations had been noticed for Asian and Hispanic sufferers,” the authors added.
Why is that this taking place? The examine factors to a number of prospects, starting from implicit bias to message content material and doctor time constraints.
Since sufferers’ emailed questions are usually seen first by a triaging nurse, researchers say there may be concern that messages from minority sufferers are “much less prone to be prioritized for doctor response.”
Affected person “well being literacy” may additionally play a task, the authors urged. Private well being literacy is described by the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention as “the diploma to which people have the power to search out, perceive, and use data and companies to tell health-related selections and actions for themselves and others.”
“Decrease well being literacy might affect the varieties of requests sufferers make by means of the portal and the style through which these requests are communicated,” the authors write.
Acquiring truthful and environment friendly entry to well being care has been a longstanding situation for Black folks within the U.S.
“Our system in America just isn’t constructed to serve everybody equally, and the well being care system just isn’t resistant to that,” emergency room physician Leigh-Ann Webb, an assistant professor of emergency medication on the College of Virginia, beforehand informed CBS Information.
Black Individuals are considerably extra doubtless than White folks to endure from continual well being circumstances like diabetes and bronchial asthma, have the best mortality price for all cancers in comparison with every other racial group, and have an toddler mortality price that is practically twice the nationwide common. Black ladies are additionally roughly 3 times extra doubtless than White ladies to die throughout childbirth, in response to the CDC.
And whereas developments in well being care know-how, such because the use of AI, may assist enhance care, some consultants fear these methods may amplify the racial bias that has persevered in medical look after generations.
-Li Cohen and the Related Press contributed reporting.
Have you ever ever despatched your physician a query by means of a web based affected person portal? The kind of response you get might differ relying in your race, a current examine suggests.
For the examine, printed in JAMA Community Open Monday, researchers examined affected person portal message responses from greater than 39,000 sufferers at Boston Medical Heart in 2021, together with the charges at which medical recommendation requests had been responded to and the varieties of well being care professionals that responded.
“When sufferers who belong to minoritized racial and ethnic teams despatched these messages, the probability of receiving any care staff response was related, however the varieties of well being care professionals that responded differed,” the authors wrote.
Black sufferers had been practically 4 proportion factors much less prone to obtain a response from an attending doctor, and about 3 proportion factors extra prone to obtain a response from a registered nurse.
“Comparable, however smaller, variations had been noticed for Asian and Hispanic sufferers,” the authors added.
Why is that this taking place? The examine factors to a number of prospects, starting from implicit bias to message content material and doctor time constraints.
Since sufferers’ emailed questions are usually seen first by a triaging nurse, researchers say there may be concern that messages from minority sufferers are “much less prone to be prioritized for doctor response.”
Affected person “well being literacy” may additionally play a task, the authors urged. Private well being literacy is described by the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention as “the diploma to which people have the power to search out, perceive, and use data and companies to tell health-related selections and actions for themselves and others.”
“Decrease well being literacy might affect the varieties of requests sufferers make by means of the portal and the style through which these requests are communicated,” the authors write.
Acquiring truthful and environment friendly entry to well being care has been a longstanding situation for Black folks within the U.S.
“Our system in America just isn’t constructed to serve everybody equally, and the well being care system just isn’t resistant to that,” emergency room physician Leigh-Ann Webb, an assistant professor of emergency medication on the College of Virginia, beforehand informed CBS Information.
Black Individuals are considerably extra doubtless than White folks to endure from continual well being circumstances like diabetes and bronchial asthma, have the best mortality price for all cancers in comparison with every other racial group, and have an toddler mortality price that is practically twice the nationwide common. Black ladies are additionally roughly 3 times extra doubtless than White ladies to die throughout childbirth, in response to the CDC.
And whereas developments in well being care know-how, such because the use of AI, may assist enhance care, some consultants fear these methods may amplify the racial bias that has persevered in medical look after generations.
-Li Cohen and the Related Press contributed reporting.
Have you ever ever despatched your physician a query by means of a web based affected person portal? The kind of response you get might differ relying in your race, a current examine suggests.
For the examine, printed in JAMA Community Open Monday, researchers examined affected person portal message responses from greater than 39,000 sufferers at Boston Medical Heart in 2021, together with the charges at which medical recommendation requests had been responded to and the varieties of well being care professionals that responded.
“When sufferers who belong to minoritized racial and ethnic teams despatched these messages, the probability of receiving any care staff response was related, however the varieties of well being care professionals that responded differed,” the authors wrote.
Black sufferers had been practically 4 proportion factors much less prone to obtain a response from an attending doctor, and about 3 proportion factors extra prone to obtain a response from a registered nurse.
“Comparable, however smaller, variations had been noticed for Asian and Hispanic sufferers,” the authors added.
Why is that this taking place? The examine factors to a number of prospects, starting from implicit bias to message content material and doctor time constraints.
Since sufferers’ emailed questions are usually seen first by a triaging nurse, researchers say there may be concern that messages from minority sufferers are “much less prone to be prioritized for doctor response.”
Affected person “well being literacy” may additionally play a task, the authors urged. Private well being literacy is described by the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention as “the diploma to which people have the power to search out, perceive, and use data and companies to tell health-related selections and actions for themselves and others.”
“Decrease well being literacy might affect the varieties of requests sufferers make by means of the portal and the style through which these requests are communicated,” the authors write.
Acquiring truthful and environment friendly entry to well being care has been a longstanding situation for Black folks within the U.S.
“Our system in America just isn’t constructed to serve everybody equally, and the well being care system just isn’t resistant to that,” emergency room physician Leigh-Ann Webb, an assistant professor of emergency medication on the College of Virginia, beforehand informed CBS Information.
Black Individuals are considerably extra doubtless than White folks to endure from continual well being circumstances like diabetes and bronchial asthma, have the best mortality price for all cancers in comparison with every other racial group, and have an toddler mortality price that is practically twice the nationwide common. Black ladies are additionally roughly 3 times extra doubtless than White ladies to die throughout childbirth, in response to the CDC.
And whereas developments in well being care know-how, such because the use of AI, may assist enhance care, some consultants fear these methods may amplify the racial bias that has persevered in medical look after generations.
-Li Cohen and the Related Press contributed reporting.