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 ...

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 ...

The importance of updating the VA’s dated record system with precision cannot be overstated.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The federal government is reviving proposed legislation that would allow digital health information to be shared safely across electronic systems.

The department is calling for the implementation of its bespoke solutions across eight provinces and within specific ...

President Bush said Thursday that the medical industry is behind the times, using paper and pen for many records and prescriptions when computerized records could reduce cost and errors. “Most ...