However, paper-based records aren’t quite a thing of the past. The most recent published figures show that only 78 percent of ...

If you’ve visited the doctor or a hospital recently, you can’t help but notice how much of your care depends on some form of electronic information exchange. From the prescription your doctor writes ...

During the 2008 presidential campaign, part of Barack Obama's health reform agenda was investing and expanding electronic health information technology. He promised to spend $10 billion per year over ...

It took decades for the Department of Veterans Affairs to begin updating its electronic health record system. Now, billions of dollars later, the VA has halted that update after multiple breakdowns ...

A federal appeals court ruled that electronic health records company PointClickCare can't block health analytics firm Real Time Medical Systems from accessing patient data from its skilled nursing ...

New ILR School-led research offers a comprehensive overview of the role of health information technology (IT) in the ...

The Department of Defense plans to decommission the online portal patients use to access old military health information and recommends patients download their digital medical records if they want to ...

WITH work underway in the healthcare sector to foster digital integration, public health laboratories are expected to soon be connected through an electronic ...

A national electronic health records system remains a first-term priority for President Barack Obama, but its price tag may far exceed current estimates, according to some health care experts. “The ...

It took decades for the VA to begin updating it's electronic health records system. After breakdowns, the VA stopped all work on the $16 billion update with the Oracle-Cerner electronic health record.