In “Fragmented,” Dr. Ilana Yurkiewicz writes about health care providers’ struggles to access medical information and how it impacts patients. It’s easy to assume that when you go to the doctor, ...
If you gave up on doing HITECH requests and went back to sending requests to providers with the patient's direction to send the records right to you, following up relentlessly, getting records, and ...
Retired Capt. James A. Lovell, left, a NASA astronaut, speaks to more than 750 guests at the official opening of the Capt. James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in Chicago. (U.S. Navy photo by ...
The vulnerability lies in the electronic network used to transfer medical records between hospitals, physicians’ offices and ...
The Irish Patients' Association has said the absence of a national electronic patient record system means thousands of ...
Stacey Bsullak, a breast cancer survivor who relies on Central Maine Healthcare doctors for appointments, said her ...
The Lewiston-based health system said switching to a new patient portal has not disrupted care or medical records. Here's ...
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