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2. What to Know About Patient Portals - WebMD

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   A patient portal is a secure website set up by a health care system, hospital, or clinic. The tools (or features) vary, depending on the portal. Patient portals can help you access medical records ...

3. Tips to Get Your Medical Records - WebMD

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   Your patient portal may also have a specific area where you can request your full medical record. Step 2: Check your doctor's website. If you visit a medical practice, your doctor may have details ...

4. Patient portal - Wikipedia

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   Some patient portal applications exist as stand-alone web sites and sell their services to healthcare providers. Other portal applications are integrated into the existing web site of a healthcare provider. Still others are modules added onto an existing electronic medical record (EMR) system. What all of these services share is the ability of ...

5. Online Medical Records and Privacy - WebMD

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   A few even allow online access to complete medical records by patients themselves. "Sharing personal medical and health information across the Internet requires a certain leap of faith -- or at ...

6. Medical record - Wikipedia

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   A medical record includes a variety of types of "notes" entered over time by healthcare professionals, recording observations and administration of drugs and therapies, orders for the administration of drugs and therapies, test results, X-rays, reports, etc. The maintenance of complete and accurate medical records is a requirement of health ...

7. Electronic health records in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Federal and state governments, insurance companies and other large medical institutions are heavily promoting the adoption of electronic health records.The US Congress included a formula of both incentives (up to $44,000 per physician under Medicare, or up to $65,000 over six years under Medicaid) and penalties (i.e. decreased Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements to doctors who fail to use ...