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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

In this day and age of computer technology, and incredible medical advances, it's amazing the vast majority of medical practices are still keeping their medical records the old fashioned way: on paper ...

An algorithm can identify individuals with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) with about 88% accuracy using electronic medical record (EMR) data, according to a study ...

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 ...

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 ...