Patient Engagement as Measured by Inpatient Portal Use: Methodology for Log File Analysis

Timothy Huerta   ^{1, 2, 3, 4 *} , PhD, MS ;   Naleef Fareed   ^{2, 4 *} , PhD, MBA ;   Jennifer L. Hefner   ^{1, 3, 4} , PhD, MPH ;   Cynthia J Sieck   ^{1, 4} , PhD, MPH ;   Christine Swoboda   ^{1, 4} , PhD, MS ;   Robert Taylor   ⁴ , MA ;   Ann Scheck McAlearney   ^{1, 2, 3, 4} , ScD, MS

¹ Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States

² Department of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States

³ Division of Health Services Management and Policy, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States

⁴ CATALYST: Center for the Advancement of Team Science, Analytics, and Systems Thinking in Health Services and Implementation Science Research, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States

*these authors contributed equally