If the cheerleaders — including the one in the Oval Office — are right, computerized medical records will save us all: save jobs, save money, reduce errors, and transform health care as we know it. In ...

The nation’s transition to electronic medical records, now in full swing, risks overlooking potential patient safety problems, independent advisers warned the Obama administration Tuesday.

President Bush on Wednesday evening renewed his call for the use of better technology in hospitals and in doctor's offices for storing and sharing medical records. Using the high visibility of his ...

David Blumenthal, a former Harvard Medical School professor who has written about electronic medical records, was appointed to the post of national coordinator for health information technology in ...

Love them or hate them, electronic medical records (EMR) are here to stay. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. They need not be painful but in some instances they have become so. I installed my ...

LITTLE ROCK — Dr. Kyle Hardy admitted feeling reluctant when he first began using the computer system at Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville. "I was dubious about the whole electronic ...

In this day and age of computer technology, and incredible medical advances, it's amazing the vast majority of medical practices are still keeping their medical records the old fashioned way: on paper ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have teamed up to improve ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. WASHINGTON • The nation's transition to electronic medical records, now in full swing, risks overlooking potential patient safety ...

What’s been described as one of the most effective and popular computerized medical records systems traces its roots back 40 years. In Politico, Arthur Allen writes, “Four decades ago, in 1977, a ...

For decades, electronic medical records have offered the potential for making one patient's experience useful to the next. Such real-world experience could offer insights into which type of person ...