After an update on the President of United States recent MRI results was made public, health experts, including Doctor Sanjay ...

A worker says that her boss demands a doctor’s note from workers as soon as they call out sick, pointing out that it’s almost impossible to get a same-day appointment in a now-viral TikTok. In the ...

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The amount of digital data available is greater than ever before, including in health care, where doctors' notes are routinely entered into electronic health record systems. Manually reviewing, ...

Did you know that as of April 2021, all patients have electronic access to their doctors’ notes from medical appointments? This increased access to information is aimed at improving patient care, as ...

Google is working on an AI model to translate hard-to-read handwriting, like on doctors' notes. The company announced it's working with pharmacists on the AI model that will be in Google Lens. There's ...

Every time you see the doctor, he or she writes a note about the encounter for the record. Normally you never see it. A lot of what's in that note is objective stuff about your blood pressure, weight ...

Doctors are more likely to describe Black patients negatively when writing notes and reports, which could encourage medical racism and Black people’s distrust of the nation’s health care system, a ...

Doctors are increasingly using AI tools to take clinical notes, CNBC reports. Clinical notes — and paperwork in general — take up a remarkably huge chunk of physicians’ time, often leading to ...

Patients with diabetes are also more likely to be described as “noncompliant,” according to large studies of medical records. By Roni Caryn Rabin Medical records contain a plethora of information, ...

A school district in Tennessee says it will no longer accept doctors' notes to excuse absenses. Children in Lawrence County School System who are sick for more than a few days will be treated as ...