A mascot-led outreach effort is underway as Chillicothe VA prepares for a major upgrade to veteran health records.

WASHINGTON — A joint inspector general audit of the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments found the agencies did not do enough to exchange electronic health records information because interagency ...

Discrepancies with the Veterans Health Administration's patient medical recordkeeping for community care provider visits – including a lack of controls within the software – have led to incomplete ...

In determining when higher education institutions are allowed to use student medical records other than for a student's healthcare, the institutions have to balance students' privacy interests, ...

The move to electronic health records could mean more money should be earmarked from general services budgets. According to a recent Billian’s HealthDATA report, hospitals' medical records-related ...

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 ...

With the adoption of EHRs and patients’ growing demand for access to information, the rate at which hospitals are offering electronic capabilities — and that patients are using them — has skyrocketed ...

A service member shelves medical records at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota in March 2009. Recent resignations at VA's new electronic medical records office have raised concerns among lawmakers ...