Advances in medical imaging and the proliferation of diagnostic and screening tests have generated mountains of data on patient health. Digital information technology has seemed poised to ...

An electronic health record (EHR) is a collection of a patient's medical history – including diagnoses, medications, treatment plans, allergies, laboratory and test results. EHRs allow patients' ...

In recent years, medical providers have largely moved away from scrawled paper charts to electronic health records—a switchover spurred both by a 2014 federal mandate and by the promise of better ...

A decade ago, the U.S. government claimed that ditching paper medical charts for electronic records would make health care better, safer and cheaper. Ten years and $36 billion later, the digital ...