Empowering diversity: striving for inclusivity by leveraging the American Medical Informatics Association's "For Your Informatics" Podcast.

Importance: Starting in 2018, the 'Women in American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Podcast' was women-focused, in 2021 the podcast was rebranded and relaunched as the "For Your Informatics Podcast" (FYI) to expand the scope of the podcast to include other historically underrepresented groups. That expansion of the scope, together with a rebranding and marketing campaign, led to a larger audience and engagement of the AMIA community.

Objectives: The goals of this case report are to characterize our rebranding and expanding decisions, and to assess how they impacted our listenership and engagement to achieve the Podcast goals of increasing diversity among the Podcast team, guests, audience, and improve audience engagement.

Using a Machine Learning Algorithm to Predict Online Patient Portal Utilization: A Patient Engagement Study.

Objective: There is a low rate of online patient portal utilization in the U.S. This study aimed to utilize a machine learning approach to predict access to online medical records through a patient portal.

Overcoming technical and cultural challenges to delivering equitable care for LGBTQ+ individuals in a rural, underserved area.

The lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning (LGBTQ+) community is vulnerable to health-care disparities. Many health-care organizations are working to collect sexual orientation and gender identity in their electronic health records (EHRs), with the goal of providing more inclusive care to their LGBTQ+ patients. There are significant human and technical barriers to making these efforts successful.

Bringing Cultural Competency to the EHR: Lessons Learned Providing Respectful, Quality Care to the LGBTQ Community.

The lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) community is vulnerable to healthcare disparities. Many healthcare organizations are contemplating efforts to collect sexual orientation and gender identity in the electronic health record (EHR), with a goal of providing more respectful, inclusive, high-quality care to their LGBTQ patients. There are significant human and technical barriers that must be overcome to make these efforts successful.

Impact of Digital Divide on the Adoption of Online Patient Portals for Self-Motivated Patients.

Objective: Our study aimed to determine the effect of the digital divide in the adoption of online patient portals by motivated patients who wish to improve their health outcomes through the use of the Internet and information technology to assess determinants of low adoption rates of online portals and to explore social media use as a correlation to patient portal use.

Methods: We utilized data from the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) 2017 and 2018. We performed a cross-sectional study analyzing the outcome variable of patient portal use with several predictor variables, namely, age, marital status, gender, mental health, education, Medicaid, income, number of people in household, trust, social media, chronic disease, and health app use.