electronic health records

Will doctors soon be consulting patients' records on their Streaks? That is the plan, according to Dell Computers, which aims to load the tablet devices with health care software this fall. But it could be an uphill battle, as the medical industry is notoriously slow to adopt new technology.

The maker of TurboTax and QuickBooks financial software is extending into electronic health-care records with its purchase of Medfusion. Given that 72% of consumers surveyed told Intuit they'd use an online tool for tracking health care, it may be another billion-dollar opportunity.

With most U.S. hospitals and doctors' offices still mired in paper, new federal standards for electronic records seek to resolve this mess -- although they're not without controversy.

The heat is on. Doctors, long resistant to taking their practices into the digital age, are finally starting to adopt electronic health records. President Obama said earlier this year he wanted to see all medical records digitized within five years. There have been many reasons for the...

Most everyone agrees that getting doctors to convert paper health records to a digital system makes a ton of sense. Physicians could immediately pull up your lab data, scans, medical allergies, and other key information on the spot -- regardless of whether you're just seeing your regular physician...