Understanding your medical chart is not just about health management, it’s also a legal right. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ensures patients have access to their ...

From 2009 to 2018, as electronic medical records became ubiquitous, chart notes doubled in length. In the Penn study, the average patient record had more than half the word count of Shakespeare ...

Electronic medical records. EMRs are essentially digital equivalents of paper medical records. They help create a paperless office for medical practices by storing and granting authorized personnel ...

If you’re not a professional actively working in the healthcare industry, you probably don’t realize how important medical records are — or how dangerously unreliable they can be. According ...

Thousands of exposed servers are spilling the medical records and personal health information of millions of patients due to security weaknesses in a decades-old industry standard designed for ...

President-elect Barack Obama said in a speech on Thursday that the government will push for electronic health records for all Americans within five years in order to save both dollars and lives.

Under federal HIPAA rules, patients have the right to request that doctors fix errors, but the provider has up to 60 days to respond, and can ask for a 30-day extension. The provider also can ...

It would cap how much medical records could charge patients and their attorneys at $150 to $250 depending on how big the record is. Parker says that's still a lot to pay for records that in most ...