NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who had access to their medical records online also came into their doctor's office for more appointments and used the emergency room more often than those who ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Babies were more likely to have all of their recommended well-child visits when parents accessed their health records online, in a new study. At one of two healthcare ...

Online records will be easier to access, but a search by name alone won't give the public access. Those searching records online need a specific case number, which generally would require a $20 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once a cancer diagnosis is confirmed, a patient's life is not only altered but there is a lot to learn as they make care decisions. "For cancer survivors and those managing a recent diagnosis, having ...

Jen Ganly carried her purple backpack everywhere. Inside it, she kept every medical record from every doctor’s visit with her 3-year-old son, Gabe. Whenever she and Gabe visited a physician, Ganly, a ...

Katie DeLand didn't realize she had no access to her 15-year-old son's medical records until a debt collection agency called her about a missed payment for a sports-related procedure. "The mere fact ...

San Francisco-based PatientBank, which makes an online medical record storage and retrieval platform, has raised $2.2 million in seed funding led by General Catalyst and Khosla Ventures. SV Angel, ...

IBM Corp., eager to tap the $20 billion stimulus plan to digitize health care, has set up the first electronic medical-record exchange for the U.S. government. The system gives the U.S. Social ...