However, paper-based records aren’t quite a thing of the past. The most recent published figures show that only 78 percent of ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Switching from paper to electronic medical records at health clinics led to "modest reductions" in the number of people with diabetes that went to the emergency room or ...

On March 15, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued revised draft guidance summarizing how it intends regulate the use of electronic systems, records, and signatures in clinical ...

A study of 83 leading hospitals finds barriers to exercising your legal right. This is a Kaiser Health news story. Medical records can be hard for patients to get, even in this digital information age ...

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 ...

Under the requirements in the Office of Management and Budget’s M-19-21 memo, federal agencies must make a full transition to electronic recordkeeping by the end of 2022, and the National Archives and ...

Uncle Sam wants your doctor to go digital. And the federal government is backing that up with money for practices that start using computerized systems for record keeping. Nearly half of all ...

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 ...

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 ...