Patients Wary of Easing Standards For Treatment, Access to Records
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In the debate over Virginia's mental health system, they're called "consumers." Some of them call themselves survivors.
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Doctors deny older people treatments they would offer younger patients, a study says.
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The federal government is now telling patients whether their local hospitals are doing what they should to treat heart attacks, heart failure and pneumonia.
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Doctors need guidance on how to avoid problems using technology to reach patients, says a researcher.
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Advances in genetic testing are placing strains on the principle of doctor-patient confidentiality, as doctors grapple with whether to tell a patient's relatives when the patient has an inherited disease or mutation that could afflict other members of the family.
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The system eventually will lead to all patients having an individual electronic record. Online booking will mean doctors and patients can make hospital appointments at their convenience.
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Drug companies are fighting most of the state initiatives, which they say will deny patients access to valuable treatments.
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Many doctors believe they have the right not to tell patients about treatments that they object to on moral or religious grounds and to refuse to refer patients elsewhere for the care, according to the first study to examine physicians' views on such situations.
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Many NHS patients could soon be able to make an appointment to see their GP over the internet.
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An effort to ease tensions over the use of morphine-based painkillers has backfired -- leaving many doctors and patients more fearful than before that they could be arrested for practicing what they consider good medicine.
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Government plans to allow the enforced treatment of potentially dangerous mental health patients are likely to be watered-down.
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Cancer patients can often feel baffled when offered a choice of treatments, a study has suggested.
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We expect them to use hard data. But that's not always the best kind of medicine
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Uncertainty surrounding a host of  legal issues may stall adoption of electronic medical records  and U.S. officials have done little to address the problem, a  congressional watchdog agency said Monday.
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There's an open secret in medicine: Patients lie.
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Health dept does u-turn The Information Commissioner has been told that patients will have the opportunity to refuse to have their details uploaded onto the new NHS medical records system. The news comes just weeks after the Department of Health refused patients that right.â¦
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Health industry, tech firms, government agencies might collaborate to build a secure database of patient records.