Although progress has been made in the U.S. with electronic health records, the survey revealed that 57 percent of patients do not have easy access to any records whatsoever. The Ambra Health research ...

Northern California-based not-for-profit healthcare provider Sutter Health is now offering an iPhone application to its patients that enables them to access their medical records. The application, ...

More and more patients are accessing their medical records via patient portals or apps on their phones and tablets, and the frequency with which they access these records is increasing, according to a ...

HealthEx has launched a new patient-directed health data exchange service under the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, or TEFCA. Announced on Tuesday, the new service offers patients ...

The restoration comes more than a month after the attack, and means that patients ‘should see improved efficiencies in appointment scheduling, wait times for appointments and prescription fulfillment.

U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pursuing federal government access to most Americans’ medical records, in a quest to research a link between vaccines and autism — a connection the ...

This article was originally published by RFID Update. February 8, 2007—MedicAlert, a provider of medical information services and personal health record management, has tapped RFID technology to ...

HIPAA regulations strictly control access to a deceased spouse’s medical records, including those from Medicare. You can only access these records if you legally represent their estate or have ...

HIPAA regulations strictly control access to a deceased person’s medical records, including those from Medicare. A spouse can only access these records if they legally represent their partner’s estate ...

Two thousand years ago, physicians in Egypt documented their patients’ symptoms and treatments on papyrus scrolls. These early medical records served a simple, localized purpose: they supported direct ...