Inadvertent humor gleaned from the medical charts of patients.

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 ...

I recently took care of a patient whose medical records included multiple notes about her past open-heart surgery. Only she had never undergone open-heart surgery. That would have been obvious if ...

The state Medical Examining Board has reprimanded and fined Dr. Judith Major, of Shelton, $7,500 for changing a patient’s chart after DPH officials notified her that the patient had filed a ...

Two executives at Shasta Regional Medical Center, owned by Prime Healthcare Services, are facing severe criticism after sharing a patient's medical chart with news outlets. The incident, in ...

Bay Area hospitals are testing a new device called Motion C5 which could make the paper patient medical chart a thing of the past. The handheld computer tablet, developed in collaboration with UCSF, ...

Using MyChart, patients can see their medical records over the Internet, immediately get lab results, seek prescription refills, make appointments and quickly get questions answered.

The exposed information may have included first and last names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, financial account information and/or medical-related information.

Patient medical charts, which might have been compromised, contain names, addresses, birthdate, phone numbers, email addresses, Social Security numbers, insurance carriers and driver’s license ...

Black patients were more often described negatively in medical notes than white patients, which may impact care.