News tagged with personal medical records


No link between anesthesia, dementia in elderly

Elderly patients who receive anesthesia are no more likely to develop long-term dementia or Alzheimer's disease than other seniors, according to new Mayo Clinic research. The study analyzed thousands of patients using the ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created May 01, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

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.

Health created Nov 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Other created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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.

Health created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Making personal health records more usable

Although personal health records are now securely accessible online to a large and growing number of individuals, little research has been conducted on opinions about their ease of use.

Health created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New technology gives patients control of medical image sharing

Patients at three major medical institutions can control the sharing of their medical images and reports with their doctors and medical providers. The RSNA Image Share network was demonstrated today at the annual meeting ...

Other created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Access to personal medical records increases satisfaction among new cancer patients

A new analysis has found that allowing full access to personal medical records increases satisfaction without increasing anxiety in newly diagnosed cancer patients. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journa ...

Cancer created May 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0