Sexual Health Features for Patient Portals

Participants were asked about the importance of including features specific to sexual health within a web-based health record (available through a patient portal) as a high priority, moderate priority, low priority, or inappropriate. Features included (1) educational information explaining HIV and other STIs; (2) tips to help talk with sex partners about sexual health; (3) information on ordering HIV and STI home-test kits; (4) information on other locations to get tested; (5) sexual diaries (to help document your sexual experiences); (6) educational games on sexual health; (7) the ability to notify partners of positive results anonymously; (8) the ability to video chat with health care providers; (9) information on social support service linkages (eg, substance use, mental health, and intimate partner violence resources); (10) information about HIV PrEP; (11) information about HIV PEP; (12) information on tools to help manage HIV treatment; and (13) information on the HIV genetic subtype. A free-text “Other” response was included to allow participants to list additional desired features. The comprehensive list of patient portal features was developed during a formative research phase in collaboration with the USHINE Study Community Advisory Board. Members of the Community Advisory Board were Black sexual minority men living in Baltimore.