Dr. Cecil Wilson is in no rush to convert his nearly 5,000 patient charts from paper to digital. Wilson, an internist in Winter Park, Fla., says converting records for his 30-year practice would cost more than he wants to pay and would take time away from his ...

It happens all the time: Filling out that clipboard at the doctor's office, you can't remember what cancer killed Aunt Sally or when Dad had his heart attack. A good family health history is far more important than a gene test in predicting your future medical needs, but it's hugely underused. On Tuesday, the government begins offering ...

Federal health officials estimate that the struggling economy will speed up by one to three years the exhaustion of the Medicare trust fund covering hospital and nursing home care. Trustees for the Social Security and Medicare programs warned last March that the trust fund for Medicare Part A would become insolvent in 2019. But the chief actuary for Medicare said ...