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 ...

A doctor’s appointment can be overwhelming, especially when you’re trying to accurately understand your physician’s explanation of a condition or ...

You value independent local news, so become a sustainer today to power our newsroom. If patients and doctors both have easy access to the notes the doctor takes during their office visits, will it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...