Many top hospitals in the United States are making it unduly confusing or expensive for patients to gain access to their own medical records, say researchers at Yale. Their study appeared on Oct. 5 in ...

The American Revolution had July 4. The allies had D-Day. And now U.S. patients, held down for decades by information hoarders, can rally around a new turning point, October 6, 2022 — the day they got ...

It’s your right to access all of your hospital records — and the best reason to have them might be financial. If you’re hit with a huge medical bill that you think is erroneous or fraudulent, these ...

You must use the Patient Portal (not email) for any confidential communication with health care providers and nurses at Student Health Services. Through the Patient Portal, you can also view and print ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the intersection between your healthcare and your money. Yours is a relatively common complaint — that medical ...

There’s a flip side to the federal law that protects the privacy of your health information: namely, provisions that are meant to make it easy for you to get copies of your own medical records. But if ...

Google unveiled new capabilities in healthcare March 18 at its “The Check Up” event, including medical records application programing interfaces within Health Connect. The Medical Records APIs let ...

Artificial intelligence, including machine learning, is everywhere these days. From news headlines to talk show monologues, it seems like everyone is talking about artificial intelligence (AI) and how ...

HIPAA regulations strictly control access to a deceased spouse’s medical records, including those from Medicare. You can only access these records if you legally represent their estate or have ...

A cloud and blockchain-based hospital information system for major tertiary hospitals is being developed in South Korea to bring a more personalized, tailored approach to healthcare. The Korean ...