The electronic health record (EHR) was introduced with a view to improving access to patient data, ensuring timely delivery of optimal patient care, and ensuring interoperability to improve collaboration among the healthcare providers. The EHR also facilitates medical...
Electronic health records are being implemented in hospitals, clinics and other healthcare facilities in the U.S in keeping with the government directive. Making healthcare information available...
Doctors can share medical records without concerns about privacy breach thanks to Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ)’s introduction of its first national service Secure Universal Message Services to...
The nation’s administration is focused on formulating new medical privacy rules after coming under sharp criticism for the current regulations that offer quite inadequate privacy protection. With...
How safe is a central storage system for patient medical records? This thought must surely be doing the rounds in the minds of physicians and patients alike. The U.S. government’s efforts to...
October 10 is designated as World Mental Health Day by the WHO (World Health Organization) to draw attention to the fact that mental disorders do not receive the care due to them. This is true in...
Your medical records may not be confidential after all, as a recent ABC News Investigation revealed. Physician’s notes may be accessible to doctors as well as other healthcare professionals in an...
Shocking statistics of patient data leaks across the US is a matter of great concern with reports of healthcare employees stealing patient identities to pay their water and gas bills. Data breaches...