Eating your veggies? Thumbs up. With computerized records and messaging through patient portals, some doctors have traded their infamous chicken scratch handwriting for easier-to-decipher ...

In the health care industry, there is a common adage: If you didn’t document it, it didn’t happen. For a combination of legal, medical and billing reasons, doctors spend hours every day in front of ...

Let's say you request your doctor's notes from a recent visit, and in it, you see terms like “imp,” “po,” “F/U” and “OD.” Feeling insulted? Don't be. These terms are shorthand for medical terminology: ...