The Department of Veterans Affairs uses Patient Record Flags to alert staff when veterans may face or pose heightened safety ...

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

Imperfect identity data can impair care quality and patient safety, hinder healthcare AI initiatives, and impact the bottom ...

American patients will see an average of 18.7 different doctors during their lives. Each encounter will generate its own data, including diagnoses, vital statistics, lab results, medications and more.

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Fragmented patient records and duplicate or overlaid medical records remain a persistent safety and cost risk across U.S. health systems. Duplicate medical record creation happens when a single ...