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 ...

While more pharma companies launch DTC platforms, states, not the federal government, are providing guardrails to protect ...

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 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 ...

Overview: AI is transforming patient care by analyzing vast medical data to personalize treatments.From diagnostics to ...

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 ...

What is patient privacy for? The Hippocratic Oath, thought to be one of the earliest and most widely known medical ethics texts in the world, reads: "Whatever I see or hear in the lives of my patients ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Iowa Board of Medicine regulates the state's medical profession as part of the Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals and ...

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 ...

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 ...