Q: Why does my doctor want me to use the "patient portal?" A: Fun fact: Medical records date back to hieroglyphic inscriptions found as early as 3,000 B.C. Paper medical records began filling filing ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — University Hospitals is discontinuing its MyUHCare patient portal and is transitioning patient records to UH MyChart, the health system said in a statement Friday. The change is ...

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 ...

LMH Health, 325 Maine St., is pictured in May 2021. It never fails. You get home from an appointment with your doctor and it dawns on you that there’s one question you forgot to ask. You can’t always ...

There's been a crucial shift toward active, ongoing self-management of health and wellness among patients, according to the U.S. Health and Human Services' Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy ...

A study of 83 leading hospitals finds barriers to exercising your legal right. This is a Kaiser Health news story. Medical records can be hard for patients to get, even in this digital information age ...

Even as more and more people in the United States start to have access to their medical records online, most are still far more likely to use their computers to log in to patient portals than a ...

You may not be aware of this, but you can read everything that your doctor writes about you. Go to your patient portal online, click around until you land on notes from your past visits, and read away ...

WICHITA COUNTY, Texas (KAUZ) - The Wichita Falls–Wichita County Public Health District has made two major announcements ...

An incorrect diagnosis, scan or lab result may have been inserted into a record. This story is from Kaiser Health News. When Liz Tidyman’s elderly parents moved across the country to be closer to ...

What would happen if you had a medical emergency? Would the emergency room doctors know what medications you are taking? Would they know about your allergies? Would they know about your pre-existing ...