More U.S. patients will soon have free, electronic access to the notes their doctors write about them under a new federal requirement for transparency. Many health systems are opening up records ...

Pilots often face challenges in obtaining the specific, detailed clinical progress notes required for FAA medical certification from their regular physicians, who may be unfamiliar with these rigorous ...

What does your doctor really think about your condition and health concerns? For more than a year now, patients have been able to access and read the observations doctors write down about them during ...

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 ...

October 1, 2012 — Primary care physicians and patients believe that allowing patients to review doctors' notes has significant benefits and few problems, according to the findings of a ...

In the health care industry, there is a common adage: If you didn’t document it, it didn’t happen. For a combination of legal, medical and billing reasons, doctors spend hours every day in front of ...

Eating your veggies? Thumbs up. With computerized records and messaging through patient portals, some doctors have traded their infamous chicken scratch handwriting for easier-to-decipher ...