More and more patients are accessing their medical records via patient portals or apps on their phones and tablets, and the frequency with which they access these records is increasing, according to a ...

If you gave up on doing HITECH requests and went back to sending requests to providers with the patient's direction to send the records right to you, following up relentlessly, getting records, and ...

The Trump administration and the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have announced plans to collaborate with major health and technology companies to enhance Americans’ access to their ...

HIPAA regulations strictly control access to a deceased person’s medical records, including those from Medicare. A spouse can only access these records if they legally represent their partner’s estate ...

HealthEx has launched a new patient-directed health data exchange service under the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, or TEFCA. Announced on Tuesday, the new service offers patients ...

HIPAA regulations strictly control access to a deceased spouse’s medical records, including those from Medicare. You can only access these records if you legally represent their estate or have ...

The Health and Human Services Department wants to access medical records, but it's not tied to reports of autism research, the department says.

U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pursuing federal government access to most Americans’ medical records, in a quest to research a link between vaccines and autism — a connection the ...

We look at how life insurers use prescription-drug databases to assess your health and how well you’re managing medical conditions ...