Although patients have the right of access to their protected health information, actual access remains limited. A new study, published in JAMA Network Open, has found that the processing of ...

What if the challenge to overcome with data sharing was the policies common among hospitals? A new study published in JAMA Network Open found just that: Patients are facing many hurdles when they ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- Darnell Payne requested his medical records and got someone else's – and now he wants to know why Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn is giving him the runaround. CBS 2's Tara ...

When a patient is harmed during medical care, one of the first steps toward understanding what happened is requesting their medical records from their providers. That instinct is both natural and ...