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 ...

Should patients be able to decide that some of their providers shouldn't have access to certain parts of their medical record? That's the issue behind one part of a proposed rule from the Office of ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Across federal and state health agencies, a wave of modernization is underway. New EHR implementations, system upgrades and data ...

Fulton County, Georgia, is experiencing an unprecedented crisis of jail-attributable deaths—deaths to which the difficult conditions of incarceration were a contributor—in its carceral facilities.

After HCA Healthcare announced this month that the personal identification data of roughly 11 million HCA patients in 20 states had been exposed in a breach, people may be justifiably concerned that ...

Ontario is planning to create a provincewide electronic medical record system for primary care, more than two decades after the government first embarked on what became a scandal-plagued eHealth ...