Electronic Health Record

The 21st Century Cures Act aimed to improve patient access to medical test results by requiring their immediate release via electronic portals.

Electronic health records appear to pose a considerable burden for oncologists, according to study results.

Primary care physicians’ time spent on electronic health records substantially increased between 2019 and 2023, according to a study published in the Annals of Family Medicine.

Nearly 20% of deceased patients in a Californian health care system were marked as alive with a serious illness in the electronic health record, resulting in hundreds of unnecessary outreach efforts, according to researchers.

Primary care practices in counties with higher social deprivation had decreased odds of documenting alcohol-related problems in the electronic health record, according to a recent study.

An intervention consisting of electronic health record reminders and patient outreach improved follow-up completion of overdue abnormal cancer screening results, a study in JAMA Network Open showed.

Seeing how much a medication would cost a patient helped some physicians make decisions when prescribing, according to the results of research published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Using routinely collected data in electronic health records, predictive modeling stratified risks for developing food allergy among infants, according to a study published in Allergy.

Healio spoke with David Klonoff, MD, about unmet needs in the field of diabetes technology.

Patterns of pediatric allergy demonstrated a population-level progression of diseases in an atopic march from eczema to food allergies, asthma and environmental allergies, according to a study published in Pediatrics.