The question of whether patients should be permitted to record interactions with their doctors, and when and how it is best to do so, has become a highly contentious issue to navigate in today’s ...

Here’s what you should know. 1. A survey, published in BMJ Open, revealed 24 percent of 161 patients admitted to covertly recording their physicians. Only 11 states have laws in effect on covert ...

Fragmented patient records and duplicate or overlaid medical records remain a persistent safety and cost risk across U.S. health systems. Duplicate medical record creation happens when a single ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A former Tripler Army Medical Center doctor has been criminally charged with secretly recording patients during medical examinations. Gynecologist Dr. Blaine McGraw, 47, is ...

One of the cornerstones of hospital efficiency is patient throughput. To be able to bring in more patients, hospitals need to ensure that the average length of stay at their facility isn’t ...

IT problems have hit a hospital trust's electronic patient record system in Birmingham, it's been revealed. An issue affected Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust for several hours on Friday, the ...

Almost every NHS trust will have moved onto a digital system by this spring. Experts have cautioned many patients are still ...