Ever wondered what your doctor is saying about you in all of those typed or scribbled notes? You may be able to find out soon, if you can’t already. OpenNotes is a national movement encouraging ...

After you leave your doctor’s office, there’s a crucial part of the appointment that happens behind your back: Your doctor writes a note describing how the visit went. The note might say that your ...

(CNN) -- After you leave your doctor's office, there's a crucial part of the appointment that happens behind your back: Your doctor writes a note describing how the visit went. The note might say that ...

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 ...

Do you wonder what your doctor scribbles in the chart during your visit? Patients at Harborview Medical Center got to read their medical records, including their doctors’ detailed notes. For some, ...

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 ...

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 today ...

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 ...

But Whiteman has a secret weapon: She's able to log in to her online patient portal and read her doctor's notes to fill the gaps in her memory. She regularly sends the notes to one of her doctors ...

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 ...

The scheme — which involved Kramer dressing up as a fake Dr. Martin van Nostrum — might not have been the best-laid plan. But some new research lends some credence to the underlying idea: Patients who ...

Lets face it, everyone has had one of those days when you didn't feel like going to work. But, what if you knew that a website offering fake doctors notes, guaranteed to work, was only a few clicks ...