Today more people see several doctors at a time. The more doctors, the more important it is to have copies of medical records and knowledge your personal medical history. By having copies of ...

Personal health records and patient portals make it easy to access your medical information using your computer or smartphone.

Keeping copies of both official and personal health records for cancer and other health concerns can be empowering, and practical, for the cancer survivor.

!–paging_filter–pIt wasn’t long ago that a person’s personal health record was a box kept at home, overflowing with immunization records, lab results and past prescriptions, and there was a similar ...

The advantages of keeping personal health records came into public view in a dramatic way in 2005 after hurricanes Katrina and Rita left hundreds of thousands of evacuees without medical records ...

Some medical schools, including the University of Colorado, are taking a closer look at the need for more open record-keeping, he added.

Patients with online access to key components of their personal health records were 2.6 times more likely than nonusers to remain health plan members.

Google Inc has unveiled a plan to help U.S. patients gain control of their medical records and is working with doctors' groups, pharmacies and labs to help them securely share sensitive health data.

Electronic record-keeping has been held back by a lack of focus on consumer needs, not privacy fears, he said, adding any system should "’normal-person’ designed, not doctor designed." ...