
What We're Reading: Improving Patient Access to Medical Records
What we're reading, January 19, 2016: the Obama administration is looking to make it easier for patients to access their medical records; a clinical trial has left 1 brain dead and 4 hospitalized; and hospitals are experimenting with mobile technologies to track patient health at home.
New guidelines from the Obama administration would make it easier for patients to gain access to their own medical records.
A clinical trial for a new drug from Portuguese pharmaceutical company Bial has led to the hospitalization of 5 participants. The drug, which was aimed at treating anxiety or problems linked to degenerative diseases, left one man brain dead, while the other 4 suffered neurological disorders,
A growing number of hospitals are using mobile technologies to track patients’ health when they are at home.
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