A recent decision by the Bush Administration threatens to delay or weaken long-sought medical privacy protections in federal law. The ACLU supports the strongest possible medical confidentiality rules ...

Despite privacy risks and inaccuracy concerns, people are feeding blood test results, doctor’s notes and surgical reports ...

Patients upload medical records to ChatGPT for faster responses, but experts warn of privacy risks and medical inaccuracies, per New York Times.

New ONC research found that a majority of Americans have some reservations about sharing health information among providers. The results, published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, were ...

A social media post circulating in recent days claims that BJC Healthcare “revokes” parents’ access to their child’s medical information.

Medical record retrieval is critical to a wide variety of legal disputes. These include cases directly about healthcare-related concerns alongside others that could depend on facts proven through the ...

Medical data breaches are becoming increasingly prevalent, posing significant threats to patient privacy. According to the HIPAA Journal, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services tracked a ...

A federal court has ruled against the U.S. Department of Justice in its attempt to secure private medical records belonging ...

Indiana Court of Appeals upholds judge's order, blocking release of abortion reports as confidential medical records, ...

Legislators have revisited the issue of whether medical record privacy laws, like HIPAA, are too restrictive and hinder doctors' ability to treat mentally ill patients, the Congressional Quarterly (CQ ...

U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy’s (D-MA) federal proposal establishing an Electronic Health Information System has prompted representatives from 47 state and national organizations and health IT companies to ...

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