The security concerns of the healthcare industry are well-known. Attacks on patient data have risen 125%1 in recent years, with 90% of all organizations suffering from at least one data breach in the ...

ICE agents monitored a detained Salvadoran woman 24/7 in local hospitals, and pressured her to self-discharge against doctor’s orders. While detained patients have legal rights to private medical care ...

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 ...

"Blue Button+ can centralize authorization," Gropper says, while Direct e-mail addresses can serve as patient identifiers index. Patients can have more than one address for the purpose of segmentation ...

When Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of California announced they had begun giving patient claims data to Cal INDEX, Consumer Watchdog called for a boycott of the database until privacy questions ...

California is advising health care providers not to write down patients’ immigration status on bills and medical records and telling them they don’t have to assist federal agents in arrests. Some ...

The Patient Privacy Rights Foundation and the Electronic Privacy Information Center are lobbying Congress for stronger privacy laws to protect electronic medical records. The development comes at a ...