Gone are the days when people kept their family physician past childhood through young adulthood and parenthood and into old age. Now most health care consists of an assortment of primary care ...

Connect your medical network account to the Health app to import your previous, current, and future medical documentation.

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Some documents you collect during discovery and litigation preparation are straightforward—like deeds, trial transcripts, or insurance policies. Medical records, on the other hand, are not always as ...

At a time when many insurers and health information technology companies are busily assembling databases of hundreds of millions of medical records, Americans find it difficult to get access to their ...

Your guide to getting medical records and documents from one doctor’s office or clinic to a new healthcare professional. This can be a multi-step process that isn’t always as easy as it may seem. If ...

A lot of healthcare providers have terrible websites. Apple’s Health app, on the other hand, is very well organized and intuitive to use. You can add your medical records to the Apple Health app for ...

Imagine you rush to the emergency room, but after five hours, they tell you to find another hospital. Or you check in at your specialist’s office for a chronic condition, only to find they have no ...

When was the last time you read the discharge paperwork you received after a visit to your doctor's office or the hospital? Chances are, you filed it with other paperwork, or worse, you took it home ...

My family’s experience – and those of many others – led our research team at Yale to publish about the experience of people seeking to obtain their medical records. The story reveals an unfortunate ...

Last week's column, "Physician, wire thyself," on the crucial need for computerization in the health care industry was dramatically underscored by the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. More than a ...