Fragmented patient records and duplicate or overlaid medical records remain a persistent safety and cost risk across U.S. health systems. Duplicate medical record creation happens when a single ...

I recently took care of a patient whose medical records included multiple notes about her past open-heart surgery. Only she had never undergone open-heart surgery. That would have been obvious if the ...

ACCESSED AND HOW TO KEEP YOURSELF PROTECTED, ACCORDING TO UPMC. PATIENT INFORMATION SUCH AS NAME, AGE AND MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS MAY HAVE BEEN COMPROMISED, THEY SAY. SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS WERE NOT, BUT ...