In the health care industry, there is a common adage: If you didn’t document it, it didn’t happen. For a combination of legal, medical and billing reasons, doctors spend hours every day in front of ...

July 19, 2021 - The federal Open Notes Rule (the "Rule") implements a portion of the federal 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) related to "information blocking." It specifies that clinical notes are ...

OpenNotes, a program that began in 2010 and is designed to drive patient engagement by making physician notes readily available, has produced increasingly positive results. But that open access ...

There might be another listener in the room at your doctor's appointments now or in the near future: ambient AI. Instead of frantically typing notes during your next visit or updating medical charts ...

New York City-based NYU Langone Health tested artificial intelligence to see how well it can convert physician notes into accurate lay language that improved patient understanding. The study, ...

Nine health systems and organizations in Washington and Oregon -- representing more than a million patients -- have pledged to open up physician notes to patients via electronic medical records by the ...

A retired San Diego physician sought a second opinion on some vision issues that had progressed. But when the medical records from his first ophthalmologist were forwarded to the second -- after ...

October 1, 2012 — Primary care physicians and patients believe that allowing patients to review doctors' notes has significant benefits and few problems, according to the findings of a ...

It comes after two high-profile security breaches involving health data at other companies in the past few months.

When health care providers enter notes into patients’ electronic health records, they are more likely to portray Black patients negatively compared with white patients, two recent studies have found.

The researchers found that clinician notes about Hispanic/Latino and non-Hispanic Black patients had similarly higher odds of containing terms undermining credibility and lower odds of supporting ...

Notes written about non-Hispanic Black patients had higher odds of containing terms undermining credibility and lower odds of supporting credibility compared with notes about White patients. HealthDay ...