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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two years and $8.4 billion into the government's effort to get doctors to take their practices digital, some unintended consequences are starting to emerge. One is a lot of unhappy doctors. In a big ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Gov. JB Pritzker backs HB5295 and the Reproductive Health Records Privacy Act to protect abortion medical records in Illinois ...

LITTLE ROCK — Dr. Kyle Hardy admitted feeling reluctant when he first began using the computer system at Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville. "I was dubious about the whole electronic ...

Medical service contractors working for the Customs and Border Protection are using an agency app to record migrants’ medical information instead of just writing it down. Homeland Security Health ...

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 ...