Electronic medical records are the modern version of the paper charts that used to fill doctors’ offices. These records contain all the exact important details — such as your medical history, test ...

A study of 83 leading hospitals finds barriers to exercising your legal right. This is a Kaiser Health news story. Medical records can be hard for patients to get, even in this digital information age ...

What would happen if you had a medical emergency? Would the emergency room doctors know what medications you are taking? Would they know about your allergies? Would they know about your pre-existing ...

Connect your medical network account to the Health app to import your previous, current, and future medical documentation.

An incorrect diagnosis, scan or lab result may have been inserted into a record. This story is from Kaiser Health News. When Liz Tidyman’s elderly parents moved across the country to be closer to ...

Two thousand years ago, physicians in Egypt documented their patients’ symptoms and treatments on papyrus scrolls. These early medical records served a simple, localized purpose: they supported direct ...