Healthcare is a very personal experience. In order to receive the best care, individuals must share the most intimate details about themselves. For this reason, trust between patients and healthcare ...

Increasingly, though, government regulators are accusing these companies of deceptive, unethical business practices, ...

The Privacy Commissioner has given Health New Zealand and patient portal Manage My Health until next year to comply with ...

Influenced by advancements in AI and wearable technology, and fueled by privacy concerns, reproductive health data is at a pivotal intersection of federal and state regulations. Traditionally, the ...

Manage My Health and Health New Zealand have been ordered to strengthen their privacy and cybersecurity systems after the Privacy Commissioner found both failed to adequately protect sensitive patient ...

Wearables generate valuable health data, but consumers often lack meaningful control over how it is used.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A teenager shows his smartwatch displaying daily steps. (Jae C. Hong / Associated Press) Every day millions of people share more ...

While healthcare AI adoption has the potential to enhance patient care, the tension between innovation and patient data privacy continues to grow. Advanced models like generative AI rely on large ...

An influential Senate committee last week voted to advance a bill to strengthen privacy protections for consumer health data not covered by HIPAA. (Image: Getty Images) An influential Senate committee ...

Hyacinth Empinado was the special projects editor for STAT’s multimedia team. Year after year, more Americans are affected by health care data breaches. Though health savings accounts, pharmacies, and ...

In April 2024, the Biden administration issued a final rule to strengthen reproductive healthcare privacy under HIPAA, nearly two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. When the ...

Republican Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D., a physician from Louisiana, was considered a key Senate vote for Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Photo by Kevin ...