Little is known about how racism and bias may be communicated in the medical record. This study used machine learning to analyze electronic health records (EHRs) from an urban academic medical center ...

Should patients be able to decide that some of their providers shouldn't have access to certain parts of their medical record? That's the issue behind one part of a proposed rule from the Office of ...

Two thousand years ago, physicians in Egypt documented their patients’ symptoms and treatments on papyrus scrolls. These early medical records served a simple, localized purpose: they supported direct ...

“Rehabbed to Death” in Oncology: Where Do We Go From Here? Like it or not, the electronic health record is here to stay. No one can argue with the fact that the electronic health record (EHR) ...

Medical records are a vital part of a patient's identity in the health care system. But what if they get mixed up with somebody else's, along with their treatments and exams? A new report by the ECRI ...

"I had a patient recently who demanded that I remove the diagnosis of opioid use disorder [OUD] from his chart. He's been on them for years, and has had abnormal urine drug screening. At that point, ...

A single typo, formatting error, or slang word makes an AI more likely to tell a patient they’re not sick or don’t need to seek medical care. That’s what MIT researchers found in a June study ...

After HCA Healthcare announced this month that the personal identification data of roughly 11 million HCA patients in 20 states had been exposed in a breach, people may be justifiably concerned that ...

In October 2022, Osaka General Medical Center suffered a ransomware attack, which disabled its medical record system and caused significant disruption.