NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Both doctors and patients gave high marks to a program allowing patients to access their primary care physicians' office notes online, in a new study. Researchers at three ...

Ever wondered what your doctor is saying about you in all of those typed or scribbled notes? You may be able to find out soon, if you can’t already. OpenNotes is a national movement encouraging ...

Ever wonder just what your doctor is furiously scribbling down in her notes as she examines you? Patients often still lack access to the notes their doctors take about their care. Now what’s called ...

For the past six years, doctors across the country have been using an online system to share their medical notes with patients. Now researchers want to take the idea a step further—and let patients ...

The software, part of Microsoft’s nearly $19 billion bet on Nuance Communications and the future of artificial intelligence in healthcare, promises to generate notes in seconds but accuracy, liability ...

During a recent physical, Jeff Gordon’s doctor told him he may be pre-diabetic. It was a quick mention, mixed in with a review of blood pressure numbers, other vital statistics like his heart rate, ...

The infamous doctor’s scrawl may finally be on the way out. Speech recognition technology is being linked to an increase in adoption of electronic health records (EHR) technologies in U.S. hospitals, ...

The scheme — which involved Kramer dressing up as a fake Dr. Martin van Nostrum — might not have been the best-laid plan. But some new research lends some credence to the underlying idea: Patients who ...

Every time you see the doctor, he or she writes a note about the encounter for the record. Normally you never see it. A lot of what's in that note is objective stuff about your blood pressure, weight ...

A new study, published today in Nature Digital Medicine, found that 'natural language processing' (NLP) of information routinely recorded by doctors - as part of patients' electronic health records - ...

A DOCTOR who sees a child with an odd appearance might write “FLK” in his notes. Short for “funny-looking kid”, it is meant not as an insult, but as a reminder to watch for slow growth and mental ...

Doctors are more likely to describe Black patients negatively when writing notes and reports, which could encourage medical racism and Black people’s distrust of the nation’s health care system, a ...