More U.S. patients will soon have free, electronic access to the notes their doctors write about them under a new federal requirement for transparency. Many health systems are opening up records ...

What does your doctor really think about your condition and health concerns? For more than a year now, patients have been able to access and read the observations doctors write down about them during ...

In the health care industry, there is a common adage: If you didn’t document it, it didn’t happen. For a combination of legal, medical and billing reasons, doctors spend hours every day in front of ...

If you’re not feeling well, you shouldn’t go to work. If we learned anything from the pandemic, hopefully we learned that. Yet, some bosses make rules that make taking a sick day more complicated, ...

A worker says that her boss demands a doctor’s note from workers as soon as they call out sick, pointing out that it’s almost impossible to get a same-day appointment in a now-viral TikTok. In the ...

The amount of digital data available is greater than ever before, including in health care, where doctors' notes are routinely entered into electronic health record systems. Manually reviewing, ...

CHICAGO — It was easy to miss Dr. Robert Gray’s quick movements, tapping the screen of his smartphone at the beginning and end of patient visits on a recent day. But Gray said those fast finger taps ...

Isn’t it funny when bosses make you come to work when you’re sick or injured but end up taking the blow themselves? In this story, a boss refuses to pay his employee for a sick day unless she goes to ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Both doctors and patients gave high marks to a program allowing patients to access their primary care physicians' office notes online, in a new study. Researchers at three ...

October 1, 2012 — Primary care physicians and patients believe that allowing patients to review doctors' notes has significant benefits and few problems, according to the findings of a ...