January 2024

A letter from the guest editor highlights how the findings in this special issue draw attention to critical questions that have arisen from health care’s digital transformation.

This analysis uses claims and electronic health records from 2021 to examine racial and ethnic variations in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases in the United States.

This article compares cardiovascular disease risk management in community clinics during the COVID-19 pandemic among patients for whom primary care was delivered mostly in person vs mostly virtually.

In a 2022 survey representative of US adults, sexual minority individuals reported greater rates of telehealth use, especially for mental health visits, than heterosexual individuals.

Longitudinal evaluation of an advanced primary care reform effort found some improvements in health information technology (IT) offerings and use as well as opportunities to improve future collaboration.

This study found that the dramatic shift from face-to-face posthospital transitional care to telehealth did not affect 30-day readmission or mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Patients’ motivations for telehealth use require further investigation to develop appropriate policies.

Compared with in-person appointments, virtual care appointments were associated with higher completion rates, shorter time to appointment, increased hemoglobin A1c documentation, and decreased blood pressure documentation.

Patients are less comfortable with predictive models used for health care administration compared with those used in clinical practice, signaling misalignment between patient comfort, policy, and practice.

This article reviews the book Artificial Intelligence for Improved Patient Outcomes: Principles for Moving Forward With Rigorous Science by Daniel W. Byrne.

From 2017 to 2022, patients with better communication with providers were more likely to report being offered and accessing a patient portal, but disparities persist.