Medical Records

How The 'Telephone Game' Approach To Medical Care Harms Patients

Marc E. Agronin | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Medical Records, Medical Errors, Doctor/Patient Relationship, Medical Costs, Elderly Care, Doctor Patient Communication, Health Post50, Fifty News

Helen's shortness of breath forced a trip to the emergency room. Over a seven-day course of treatment Helen was handed from one doctor to the next, accumulating a patchwork team of six doctors who worked sequentially rather than together.

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Taking Stock and Saving Lives: How an m-Health Initiative Is Revolutionizing Health Care in Uganda

Stephanie Rudat | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Uganda, Medical Records, Mhealth, Mobile Phones, Public Health, Nonprofits, Hiv, HIV/AIDS, Africa, Prescription Drugs, Computer Science, HIV/AIDS Africa, Technology, Healthcare, Global Health, Impact News

Until recently, most health clinics in Uganda, and indeed across the continent of Africa, transmitted all of their data manually. The journey of a paper record from doctor's pad to the Ministry of Health in Kampala was treacherous at best.

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Can Patient Data Lead to a More Intelligent, Effective Healthcare System?

Janet Dillione | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Patient Care, Electronic Medical Records, Medical Records, Digital Records Health, Data Health Care, Health Care Records, Patient Data Health, Medical Data Patients, Doctors Data Health Care, Video, Technology News

What I would like to challenge you to think about is how physicians can adopt enabling technology in order to make the leap to a smarter approach to using clinical data for patient and business good.

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Florida's Hospitals Have a Secret

Spencer Aronfeld | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Hospitals, Medical Malpractice Lawsuit, Miami, Medical Malpractice, Lynda See, Medical Records, Confidentiality, Hospital Records Public, Miami News

Florida's medical secrecy laws are buried deep into Florida's statutes and are supported in part by federal laws. Hospitals are permitted by law to practice under a veil of secrecy that no public corporation or government division enjoys.

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'The Doctor Will Call You if Anything Is Wrong'

John Whyte, M.D., MPH | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Lab Tests, Patient Rights, Doctor's Office, Medical Health Records, Medical Records, Personal Health, Get Medical Records, Patient Medical Records, My Medical Records, Medical Records Release, Medical Records Access, Healthy Living News

Sometimes the doctor will say "If you don't hear from me, everything is fine." Well, given the complexity and comprehensiveness of medical exams nowadays, that's probably not a good idea. And honestly, it's never been a good idea to assume no news is good news.

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'Confidential' Medical Records Are Wide Open To Hackers

AP | DON THOMPSON and MARCUS WOHLSEN | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Medical Records, Video, Theft Medical Record, Theft Medical Records, Medical Record Theft Sutter Health, Confidential Medical Record Theft, Medical Records Theft, Sutter Health Medical Record Theft, Medical Record Theft, Technology News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The theft of a computer containing information on more than 4 million patients of a major Northern California health care p...

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4 Million Confidential Medical Records Stolen

AP | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Medical Records, Video, Patients Records, Confidential Medical Records, Patient Medical Records, Patients Medical Records, Sutter Health, Sutter Medical Records, Medical Record Theft Sutter Health, Medical Records Patients, Records Medical, Sutter Health Medical Records, Medical Records Sutter Health, Patient Records, Technology News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A Northern California physicians network says a computer stolen last month contains personal information on more than 4 million ...

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Where Is Our iCloud for Medicine?

Max Lugavere | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Google, TED Conference, Singularity, Max Lugavere, Medicare, Technology, Medicine, Electronic Medical Records, Icloud, Current TV, Google Health, Medical Records, Doctors, Technology News

Why are medical records -- simultaneously one of the most powerful resources and biggest sources of frustration for anyone trying to get a whole-systems view of their health -- stuck in the analog and disorganized at best?

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Who's Seen Your Health Records? Proposed Rule Offers More Privacy

Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Health Privacy Rules, Medical Records, Online Medical Records, Health Politics, Healthy Living Healthy News, Health Technology, Health Records, Health Privacy, Electronic Medical Records, Access to Medical Records, Video, Healthy Living News

(Reuters) - Patients could obtain a list of everyone who has accessed their electronic medical record under a rule proposed on Tuesday by the Depa...

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The Intimacy Of Cell Phones

Peter Guber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Golden Globes 2010, Iphone, Cell Phones, Golden Globes, Medical Records, Producer, Books News

So it's now an instrument of success and survival - two primal pulls and pushes of our lives. Name something in your life that interests you more than your success and your survival?

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Push For Better Way To Share Medical E-Records

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medical Records, Ehealth Records, E-Health Records, Electronic Medical Records Benefits, Health, Online Medical Records, Home News

WASHINGTON — Think you entered the digital health age when your doctor switched from paper charts to computerized medical records? Think again: ...

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Geomedicine: What Your Street Address Can Tell Doctors About Your Health

Bill Davenhall | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Poverty, Geomedicine, Public Health, Medical Records, Patient Medical Records, Patient Records, Neighborhood, Electronic Medical Records, Healthy Living News

Accessing and using data that adds intelligence to the medical encounter should be the driving force behind modernizing our health information technology.

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The Secret Language Of Doctors

Gary W. Small, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Medical Records, Psychiatrists, Mental Health, Doctors, Alzheimer's, Health, Psychiatrist, Alzheimer's Test, Healthy Living News

Many patients want to know what's wrong with them and how to take care of it because it gives them a feeling of involvement and control. Should patients be given access to their records?

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Should Patients Read Doctor's Notes? Wrong Question.

Roni Zeiger | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Medical Records, Doctor/Patient Relationship, Patients, Health Care, Health, Electronic Medical Records, Healthy Living News

The discussion about doctor's notes might seem silly, since for many years we've had the right to go to the medical records department and get copies of our records. Instead, we should walk into the doctor's office with a video camera or tape recorder.

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Electronic Medical Record Shift: Signs Of Harm Emerge As Doctors Move From Paper

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Malpractice, Medical Records, Deaths, Cpoe, Injuries, Digital, Hospitals, Aarp, Fda, Health Care, Electronic Medical Records, Paper Records, Politics News

By Fred Schulte and Emma SchwartzHuffington Post Investigative Fund One day in March 2009, hospital workers misread small print on a computer screen,...

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Effort To Track Medical Safety Issues Faces Long Road Ahead

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Digital Systems, Medical Records, Digital Medical Records, Electronic Medical Records, Technology News

Despite mounting concern over safety risks posed by digital medical records systems, government officials are years away from starting to track hazard...

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Geography -- The Missing Vital Sign In Your Physician's Office

Bill Davenhall | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Geomedicine, Health, Environmental Factors, Medical Records, Gis, Disease History, Bill Davenhall, Hipprocrates, Doctor Patient Relationship, Medical Visit, Health Tips, Heart Disease, Children's Health, Family Medicine, Health Care, Healthy Living News

You probably have your own stories about geomedicine -- unusual health symptoms that can't be explained, cancers that run in certain families or communities that don't have a genetic or lifestyle link.

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Geomedicine: The Missing Link In Our Personal Health History

Bill Davenhall | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Environmental Factors, Medical Records, Bill Davenhall, Disease History, Geomedicine, Health, Doctor Patient Relationship, Medical Visit, Health Tips, Heart Disease, Health Care, Healthy Living News

As a good health-seeking consumer, we need to be better served by the great wealth of environmental health research that is available -- increasing the capacities of physicians to use this information.

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Shopping for Health Software, Some Doctors Get Buyer's Remorse

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Emma Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medical Records, Compter Medical Records, Digital Medical Records, Acermed, Digital Health Records, Technology News

Robert Cameron wasn't much of a technology buff, but the orthopedic surgeon knew he wanted to get rid of all the paper in his nine-physician practice ...

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Shopping for Health Software, Some Doctors Get Buyer's Remorse

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Emma Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medical Records, Compter Medical Records, Digital Medical Records, Acermed, Digital Health Records, Technology News

Robert Cameron wasn't much of a technology buff, but the orthopedic surgeon knew he wanted to get rid of all the paper in his nine-physician practice ...

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Government Pushes To Create A New Health Internet

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Fred Schulte | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Data-Sharing Health, Medical Records, Aneesh Chopra, Internet, Digital Records, Medical Records Online, Health Internet, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Politics News

Hoping to provide the backbone for a grand plan to put the nation's medical records online, federal officials have been quietly retooling an obscure g...

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Fred Schulte, Senior Reporter For HuffPost Investigative Fund, Talks Digitizing Medical Records On NPR (AUDIO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medical Records, Npr, Obama Stimulus Plan, Fret Schulte, Scott Simon, Video, Media News

Fred Schulte, a senior reporter for the Huffington Post Investigative Fund, talked with NPR's Scott Simon Saturday morning about the overlooked techno...

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Stimulus Fuels Gold Rush For Electronic Health Systems

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Fred Schulte | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Electronic Health Systems, General Electric, Medical Records, Health, Microsoft, Hospitals, Doctors, Stimulus, Digital Health Records System, Electronic Medical Records, Business News

Editor's note: This story is published in conjunction with American University's Investigative Reporting Workshop. The government's $45 billion pl...

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Vaccines Against Terrorism

Meredith Lopez | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Manhattan, Medical Records, Pediatricians, Parenting, Health Care, Brooklyn, Healthy Living News

I am through the looking glass, people. I have discovered a deep, dark secret of the utmost importance to our national security. This secret goes far...

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Newsweek's Dumb Idea

Mark Joseph | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medical Records, Jerry Adler, Barack Obama, Newsweek, Dick Cheney, Media News

One of the things I like the most about America is that our Founding Fathers had such a clear understanding of human nature, which is to say they didn...

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