WASHINGTON — The nation's transition to electronic medical records, now in full swing, risks overlooking potential patient safety problems, independent advisers warned the Obama administration Tuesday ...

Chuck Morton's family suffered three disruptive data breaches when its bank, its credit union, and a credit card processor were penetrated by hackers on separate occasions. The laborious process of ...

Medicare has just launched a pilot program to get doctors to computerize their offices. Officials say electronic health records will cure many of the ills of modern medical care, but some doctors are ...

If the cheerleaders — including the one in the Oval Office — are right, computerized medical records will save us all: save jobs, save money, reduce errors, and transform health care as we know it. In ...

Love them or hate them, electronic medical records (EMR) are here to stay. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. They need not be painful but in some instances they have become so. I installed my ...

President Bush on Wednesday evening renewed his call for the use of better technology in hospitals and in doctor's offices for storing and sharing medical records. Using the high visibility of his ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says more doctors and hospitals are embracing technology as adoption of computerized medical records reaches a “tipping point” in America. A report Wednesday ...

What’s been described as one of the most effective and popular computerized medical records systems traces its roots back 40 years. In Politico, Arthur Allen writes, “Four decades ago, in 1977, a ...

A new study of patients' electronic health records found that doctors were more likely to use negative words in describing visits with Black and Hispanic patients than white patients, something that ...

For decades, electronic medical records have offered the potential for making one patient's experience useful to the next. Such real-world experience could offer insights into which type of person ...

With 9.5% of its population estimated to be HIV-positive in 2019, Malawi has one of the highest rates of HIV prevalence in the world. While untreated HIV can lead to infection and death, ...