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Study finds racial disparities in online patient portal responses
The type of response you get from a health care provider via an patient portal request may differ depending on your race, researchers found.
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Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. After graduating from George Mason University in 2017 with a double major in Journalism and French, Sara started her journalism career near Washington, D.C. reporting for USA Today's entertainment and travel sections. She then helped launch the newspaper's wellness vertical, covering intersections of culture, mental health and lifestyle trends. She has covered everything from stigma against LGBTQ patients to the latest problematic TikTok trends and has interviewed celebrities from Lady Gaga to Michael Phelps. Now she brings her passion and knowledge of health reporting to CBS News' HealthWatch.
The type of response you get from a health care provider via an patient portal request may differ depending on your race, researchers found.
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