Table 2.
Descriptive statistics of secure medical messages and their senders for the 8-year period.
| Senders and secure message types | Numbers of secure messages, n (%) | Counts of unique senders, n (%) | |||
| Patient |
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Initiated messages | 1,569,172 (74.06) | 203,166 (93.74) | ||
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Replied messages | 549,601 (25.94) | 113,974 (52.59) | ||
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Total | 2,118,773 | 216,740 | ||
| Clinician |
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Initiated messages | 1,774,000 (50.17) | 5690 (67.27) | ||
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Replied messages | 1,761,741 (49.83) | 8,070 (95.40) | ||
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Total | 3,535,741 | 8459 | ||