The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act encourages health care providers to adopt electronic medical records with billions of dollars allocated toward the digitalization of health care. This begins ...

New research suggests that hospital electronic health records (EHRs) that are difficult to use are also less likely to catch medical errors that could harm patients. As clinicians navigate EHR systems ...

Northwell Health has announced an agreement with medical records software company Epic to implement the health system's next generation electronic health record. Northwell said the initiative is part ...

Researchers in 2019 found that text messaging, also known as short message service was used by over 85 percent of physicians. Most health care clinics, private practices and hospitals use electronic ...

Senator Jon Tester (D-Mont.) hopes an Oracle executive’s presence at the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee on July 20 signifies a “game changer” for the troubled health records system at the ...

Most of today’s medical professionals prefer electronic medical records (EMRs) over paper medical records, viewing them as a substantial improvement. However, not all practices will fare better by ...

Britain’s National Health Service awarded almost $5 billion in contracts to develop lifelong electronic health records for 50 million patients in its systems linked to 30,000 doctors and 270 ...

Living through the Coronavirus pandemic was a harrowing experience for all of us. So much about the infectious disease was unknown when it was first detected. Almost immediately, public health ...

Epic, which has been led by its 82-year-old founder Judy Faulkner for 46 years is best known for its dominance in the electronic health record software space, is pushing deeper into AI in a healthcare ...

A new patient medical records system at a Spokane Veterans Affairs hospital caused nearly 150 cases of patient harm, according to a federal watchdog agency. An inspection by the VA Office of the ...

Marion Kimani, a Military Health System Genesis trainer, instructs Airman 1st Class Jenna Slaughter, a mental health technician with the 355th Medical Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, ...