Surgical Notes, a nationwide provider of medical transcription, coding and other related information technology services, recently gathered data from roughly 30 ASCs and surgical hospitals, to ...

Hutchinson Community Hospital’s new electronic records system is improving patient care and safety while strengthening care providers’ peace of mind. During a demonstration for the hospital’s ...

The plurality of providers in medical practices are required to close their patient charts within 24 hours of a patient encounter, according to a Medical Group Management Association survey. MGMA, an ...

Biomedical engineers and clinicians at the University of Oxford and the Oxford University Hospitals in England have replaced traditional paper observation charts with iPads equipped with an early ...

Ephrata Community Hospital (ECH) is in the midst of a major project-converting paper patient charts to an electronic format or electronic medical record system (EMR). John Jabour, ECH vice president ...

Royal Darwin Hospital staff involved in Australia's first trial of electronic patient charts say the technology has been a great success and they want it to be used permanently. For the past year, ...

The study, which was published in a recent issue of Genetics in Medicine, was based on an analysis of data -- in either a family history questionnaire or in a three-generation pedigree interview ...