Posts Tagged ‘medical records’
Chemotherapy at its creation
YALE (US) — Medical records of the first patient to receive intravenous chemotherapy for cancer offer insight not only into how much the treatment has changed, but also how much it has remained the same. Continue…
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 10:52 - 0 Comments
Health & Medicine - Aug 24, 2009 4:00 - 2 Comments
Hackers looking at your health records?
“”We regulate drugs, transportation, communication, food, and many other goods and services,” says law professor Sharona Hoffman. “A safe and effective transition to computerized medical records cannot be achieved without federal regulation.”
Health & Medicine - Jul 13, 2009 12:30 - 0 Comments

Some doctors keep patients in the dark

“Failure to report abnormal test results can lead to serious, even lethal consequences for the patient,” says study leader Lawrence Casalino. “The good news is that physicians who use a simple set of systematic processes to deal with test results can greatly lessen their error rates.”










