WASHINGTON — The Obama administration says more doctors and hospitals are embracing technology as adoption of computerized medical records reach...

The ACA isn't a perfect plan but if fully enacted offers a chance to make changes to the American health care system. Understanding the role technology plays will be an ongoing discussion with advances in technology and its creative application potentially improving care and reducing costs.

By Elizabeth Gardner, for U.S. News When her 5-week-old daughter Scarlett was hospitalized in March with a potentially life-threatening respiratory...

Online medical resources are certainly not the next fad in health care. They are likely to become a permanent fixture in the way we as doctors practice medicine.

Storytelling is a two-way street. Illnesses unfold as stories, and physicians need to learn how to listen to those stories. The same is true of giving advice, for if good advice is given in the wrong way, the patient will not follow it.

WASHINGTON — America may be a technology-driven nation, but the health care system's conversion from paper to computerized records needs lots of...

But with advancement comes a learning curve and adaptation, and as we've seen with electronic health records (EHR), usability remains a widespread hurdle.

Though we are in the midst of a piecemeal transition to electronic medical records, your documents likely include hard copies of health records. And they are your responsibility.

The country's largest physicians' group adopted policies on Tuesday calling for easier-to-use electronic patient records and better nutrition in p...

Around the globe, we face increasingly complex and intertwined diagnoses, treatments and recovery paths. As a result, it is vitally important to capture and preserve the nuances of each patient's care path.

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