Dr. Philip L. Stevens treats a patient. Stevens has used only paper records in his 54 years of practice in Tonganoxie. Editor’s Note: This is the second in a three-part series on electronic medical ...

The need for doctors to enter a patient's health data during an appointment may hinder their relationship and rapport, a new study says. Patients are less likely to rate the care received as excellent ...

Take the computer out of the exam room and patients perceive the doctor as more compassionate and professional, with better communication skills. That’s the finding of a study by researchers at the ...

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Americans are aging and doctors are in short supply. By 2025, there could be a shortage of 90,000 physicians, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. To deliver results more ...

The age of digitzed medicine is here. But for all its promises of simplifying doctors' visits, the technology also risks alienating the very people it's meant to help. The use of computers in everyday ...

Nearly anyone who has visited a doctor over the past five years will have noticed the intrusion of a very unwelcome guest into the clinic room: the laptop computer. Instead of looking at you as she ...

Ariela Hernandez, a middle-aged woman, visited the doctor’s office, light-headed and coughing. She blinked and her chest rose and fell as she breathed. But Hernandez wasn’t a real patient — just a ...

The papers were filled this morning with a $200 million Medicaid scandal involving patients being given drugs unapproved by the FDA. (Picture from Under Mouse Arrest.) Every patient taking these ...