Healthcare organizations are struggling to sufficiently protect patient privacy. Although detecting the inappropriate access of protected health information (PHI) is required by HIPAA, it's nearly ...

An April 2026 lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleges two healthcare organizations used ambient AI-based tools to record and transmit audio ...

A patient is anxious about what his therapist truly thinks about him. Does the patient have a right to review the therapist’s ...

Nearly one half of patients are concerned about healthcare data breaches, though few actually read physician privacy policies, according to a survey from EHR comparison site Software Advice. According ...

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 ...

Three Iowa healthcare providers have been denied unemployment benefits after being fired for allegedly violating patient privacy laws.

The AHA April 24 urged the Sequoia Project to delay implementation of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement Individual Access Services Exchange Purpose Standard Operating Procedures ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights has released two new patient privacy resources that healthcare organizations can use to educate patients about reducing their ...

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 ...

As precision medicine advances so that more effective medical treatments can be tailored based on an patient's genomics and other characteristics, the medical community must take steps to bolster the ...

A dentist in south Alabama violated patient privacy in 2017 when he ran for state office and shared the names of more than 5,000 patients with a campaign manager and a marketing company. Dr. David ...