Some patients want more control over their health data. Cambridge Health Alliance's Hannah Galvin is working to help.

In the name of patient privacy, a security guard at a hospital in Springfield, Mo., threatened a mother with jail for trying to take a photograph of her own son. In the name of patient privacy, a ...

LMH Health's main campus at 325 Maine St. A new message from the leader of LMH Health said the hospital properly notified all patients impacted by a breach of health records that now is the subject of ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Proposition 46 calls for drug testing doctors and raising the cap on medical malpractice judgments. But another facet of the measure regarding patient privacy is stirring up ...

Although EHR adoption rate increased slightly from 2012 to 2013, patient perceptions of data privacy and security remain mostly unchanged. However, data privacy and security still is a leading cause ...

Nearly one half of patients are concerned about healthcare data breaches, though few actually read physician privacy policies, according to a survey from EHR comparison site Software Advice. According ...

Credit: Getty Images A health app may be linked to a patient's medical record, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that HIPAA protects the information on that health app. Unless an app is provided by a ...

Nurse leaders must do their best to help maintain patient privacy and be prepared to pivot as regulatory requirements change. As nurse leaders, it's important to guide the workforce to do their best ...

While chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT can help narrow the information divide between patients and providers, they can also ...