Foundation AI models trained on EHRs may inadvertently retain and expose sensitive patient information, according to a study by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

Epic Systems and a coalition of health care providers have filed a federal lawsuit against Health Gorilla, Mammoth, ...

Trinity Health (Livonia, Mich.) and UMass Memorial Health (Worcester, Mass.) have filed a lawsuit accusing Health Gorilla and a network of companies and individuals of fraudulently accessing and ...

A recent lawsuit filed in San Diego Superior Court alleges that Sharp HealthCare recorded conversations between doctors and ...

What is patient privacy for? The Hippocratic Oath, thought to be one of the earliest and most widely known medical ethics ...

Some justices appeared to balk at the idea that a hospital worker might violate health records law just by reading what's on ...

While healthcare data breaches fell slightly in 2024 compared to 2023, the number of individuals affected by data breaches sky-rocketed, driven by the February 2024 ransomware attack on Change ...

The first federal law protecting patient privacy took effect yesterday as hospitals, heath insurance companies, doctors’ offices and pharmacies all began following strict rules designed to keep ...

Patients of NKC Health in North Kansas City learned in November that their data was compromised in ‘one of the most massive ...

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 ...

Handling sensitive patient data is a critical responsibility for organizations involved in clinical trials. To meet regulatory requirements, many rely on SDTM mapping—a process that converts raw ...

As more information goes online, security breaches of credit card and Social Security numbers continue to grab headlines. But how safe is your doctor’s most recent prognosis? In September 2011, an ...