The goal of this study was to investigate patients' emotional reactions to viewing lab test results online and the actions they take after they view their results. We discovered that satisfaction, ...

BOSTON (CBS) -- With rising costs for health care and higher deductibles, many patients are looking for ways to save money. A growing trend is to order your own lab tests online. After retiring from ...

Mohana Ravindranath is a freelance health, science, and tech journalist and a 2025 Association for Health Care Journalists fellow. She was previously a Bay Area health tech correspondent for STAT.

If you’re waiting for lab test results to come back or you’re trying to figure out what they mean, the process and all those medical terms and numbers can be confusing. There are thousands of lab ...

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Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. ELEANOR HALL: Every day, doctors order lab tests to help diagnose illnesses, but these tests can be a ...

The main reason given for receiving results online was time savings, reported by 77% of participants, followed by lowering the chance of missing the results (31%). ABSTRACTObjectives: The laboratory, ...