please find a peer-reviewed article about any type of health care information system that is of interest to you. After reading the article, write a 500-word summary of what you learned about that type...

Patient portals and patient engagement
Patient portals are the health records of individuals maintained electronically to the institutional e-health records. These do promise a support mechanism that would support patient engagement. But the problem is how to encourage the policy makers, health care leaders as well as designers to adopt this patient portals and what factors can contribute to sustained utilization of patient portals.
Patient engagement is a crucial dimension of the multifaceted solution to the quality or cost crisis in US health care industry. Individuals must be involved deeply in their own care wherein their goal must be to make a competent and the well informed decision about their own health. Also, they must be able to take required action to support their decision.
The peer reviewed article chosen is a state of science review that had objective to present the details about the patient portals and patient engagement support as well as encouragement. Along with this, this review also provides a summary of future directions to enhance patient engagement with the help of patient portal research and development.
Literature review is used as tool...