Emojis are increasingly appearing in EHR, according to a new analysis of clinical notes that suggests informal digital symbols are making limited but growing inroads into healthcare communication.

Researchers at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston investigated the impact of patient engagement in evaluating their care visit notes and found patients and care partners who chose to ...

Kumar and colleagues assessed LLM’s ability to translate discharge summary notes into plain language to improve patient comprehension. 2. Patients, especially those with limited health literacy, ...

Many people trying to gather their health-care data may be all too familiar with calling medical records departments, driving to a clinic to sign a release, and paying a fee for a pile of papers with ...

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 retired San Diego physician sought a second opinion on some vision issues that had progressed. But when the medical records from his first ophthalmologist were forwarded to the second -- after ...

Patients who have access to notes from their ambulatory care visits may be able to flag mistakes, increasing record accuracy and safety engagement. A new study published in the Journal of the American ...

July 19, 2021 - The federal Open Notes Rule (the "Rule") implements a portion of the federal 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) related to "information blocking." It specifies that clinical notes are ...

Health care systems have been putting therapists’ progress reports online, much to the surprise (and anger) of some patients. By Christina Caron Stunned. Ambushed. Traumatized. These were the words ...

Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy and Management of Regional Lymph Nodes in Melanoma: American Society of Clinical Oncology and Society of Surgical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline Update Summary We ...