The Department of Veterans Affairs said Wednesday it may resume agency-wide adoption of its new electronic health records system next summer, after it was placed on hold in April due to problems ...

A nurse scans medication for a patient into the hospital's computer system at the VA Medical Center in Washington D.C., on June 29, 2013. (Thomas Brown/Staff) Veterans Affairs officials will pick up ...

This study examines trends in hospitals’ access to and use of data from electronic health record (EHR) developers that quantify clinicians’ time spent documenting clinical care in EHRs. Objectives: To ...

A team of investigative reporters recently released a scathing analysis of the Obama administration's decade-old push to digitize patient health records. The report, conducted by Fortune Magazine and ...

An electronic health record (EHR) is a collection of a patient's medical history – including diagnoses, medications, treatment plans, allergies, laboratory and test results. EHRs allow patients' ...

With the passage of the HITECH Act in 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services successfully pushed the medical community to adopt electronic health records. Leading that effort was the Office ...

Little is known about how racism and bias may be communicated in the medical record. This study used machine learning to analyze electronic health records (EHRs) from an urban academic medical center ...

It took decades for the VA to begin updating it's electronic health records system. After breakdowns, the VA stopped all work on the $16 billion update with the Oracle-Cerner electronic health record.