Medical Xpress: PHYSorg news tagged with: personal health record http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Electronic visits offer accurate diagnoses, may lead to overprescribing of antibiotics One of the first studies to compare patients who see their doctors in person to those who receive care through the Internet, known as an e-visit, underscores both the promise and the pitfalls of this technology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-electronic-accurate-overprescribing-antibiotics.html Health Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:00:36 EST news272541394 Image share project gives patients and physicians anytime, anywhere access to medical images Patients can successfully pull their medical images from the "cloud" making it faster for them to distribute them to their physicians regardless of where those physicians might be, according to a preliminary report of an image share project that involves five different academic institutions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-image-patients-physicians-anytime-access.html Other Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:30:02 EST news254971141 Report: Electronic health records still need work (AP) -- America may be a technology-driven nation, but the health care system's conversion from paper to computerized records needs lots of work to get the bugs out, according to experts who spent months studying the issue. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-electronic-health.html Health Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:01:45 EST news246884497 Home pharmacist visits seek to cut hospital readmission rates The University of Rhode Island's College of Pharmacy is pairing home visits from pharmacists with the latest technology, providing instant access to a patient's medical history and medications, all in an effort to reduce hospital readmissions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-home-pharmacist-hospital-readmission.html Health Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:43:18 EST news231597762