"My concern is, it doesn't say whether the electronic health record will be voluntary or mandatory." "You need to make sure that if you don't want to use an e-health care record, you don't have ...

Canadians' electronic health records need more protections to prevent foreign entities from accessing patient data, according ...

Andrew Schechtman, a family physician in a 12-doctor practice in San Jose, Calif., switched to ElationEMR in 2011, from Practice Fusion, a free electronic health record.

The law that guarantees patients access to their medical records — HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) — was amended in 2009 to extend those rights to electronic copies ...

Implementing electronic health records may be even harder for government-sponsored health care than it is for the private sector, McLemore said, adding that HealthVault could help ease the ...

VA Electronic Health Record Rollout Unlikely to Resume for a Year After Being Derailed by Problems Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center, North Chicago, Illinois.

Electronic health records slow doctors down and distract them from meaningful face time caring for patients. That is the sad but unsurprising finding of a time and motion study published in ...

Because there are no standard measures of usability, electronic health records cannot be compared directly on their usability. Researchers suggest that such measures should be developed and test ...

Recent estimates show interoperability issues between current electronic medical health record platforms cost U.S. hospitals more than $30 billion annually, and issues caused by delayed or ...

The DoD and VA both use the Oracle Cerner software platform for their electronic health record systems. The VA has deployed its system, called Millenium, at three sites. But the VA rollout at some ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday made a fresh push to improve Americans’ access to their own medical records, tasking ...