The Veterans Affairs Department’s fumbling effort to replace its decadesold electronic health records system has strained its relationship with Congress to the breaking point. Anger about the project ...

GEORGETOWN COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) - Accessing medical records will soon be easier for patients of one Georgetown County healthcare system. The MUSC affiliate Tidelands Health announced they will be ...

In today’s fast-paced healthcare environment, the shift to electronic medical records systems (EMRs) is a hot topic. While some see it as a lifesaver, others worry about the potential pitfalls. This ...

Medical service contractors working for the Customs and Border Protection are using an agency app to record migrants’ medical information instead of just writing it down. Homeland Security Health ...

Employees at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in Illinois on Saturday fully switched over to the new joint military and Veterans Affairs electronic health records system, a ...

Hospital system Ascension said Tuesday that it hopes to restore a system that's key to its operations by the end of next week nationwide, more than a month after a ransomware attack caused ongoing ...

The thought of a ransomware attack on your hospital or health system may keep you up at night. You could be losing even more sleep recently as COVID-19 seems to have spurred a new wave of attacks ...

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 ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Spokane, Washington, suspended patient admissions and most outpatient appointments Thursday after the facility's electronic health records system was ...

Sarah Sheffield, a nurse practitioner at a Veterans Affairs clinic in Eugene, Oregon, had a problem. Her patients — mostly in their 70s and beyond — couldn’t read computer screens. It’s not an unusual ...

Progress on electronic medical records has been held back by loose and overlapping technical standards and poor interoperability among different types of health care information systems sold by ...