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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gov. JB Pritzker signed a measure into law Wednesday shielding patients from having electronic medical records related to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have teamed up to improve ...

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 ...