privacy

Security reminders are important communication vehicles in addition to formal training.

After an extensive forensic investigation, Oaklawn determined that the compromised email accounts may have contained identifiable personal information or protected...

If the copy is readily producible electronically but not in the specific format requested, the CE may offer the individual...

A healthcare provider may share information with persons if, using professional judgment, he or she decides that the patient does...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires healthcare employees to use or share only the "minimum necessary" information...

Issues are 'complicated,' and it's necessary to balance the needs of multiple stakeholders.

From the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, the healthcare system shares details about balancing innovation with the need to protect patient...

Hundreds of computer servers worldwide that store patient X-rays and MRIs are so insecure that anyone with a web browser...

Beyond a lack of training, the results suggest there's insufficient awareness of institutional cybersecurity policies.

HHS seeks to change how far civil rights protections extend and how those protections are enforced.

Patients are never asked about their immigration status, and the staffs have set up protocols in case the offices are...

Many physicians aren't taking the federal government's advice because of entrenched ethical and legal concerns.