From detecting pneumonia on a chest X-ray to assessing whether a dark spot on the skin is benign or malignant, medical AI ...

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 ...

Scientists have created a 'digital mask' that will allow facial images to be stored in medical records while preventing potentially sensitive personal biometric information from being extracted and ...

With a goal of better matching the right patients to all the right medical records, federal regulators have issued new draft technical specifications for standardizing how patients' physical addresses ...

Every hospital in America promises to protect the privacy of its patients and the details of their medical care. And almost every one of them uses sophisticated data tools to track and share the ...

Australia’s largest pharmacy chain has sparked privacy concerns after rolling out AI-powered cameras worn by staff. Some ...

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 ...

Dr. Eric Liederman, director of medical informatics for The Permanente Medical Group, says good communications with patients about cybersecurity protection is essential – even as risks to protected ...

It's been a difficult few weeks for the NHS's digital ambitions. On 3 June a ransomware cyber attack on pathology test provider Synnovis led to thousands of cancelled appointments and procedures and a ...

Confidence in the security and confidentiality of personal health information is beginning to erode, if the results of a new survey are any indication. Released by the American Medical Association, ...

A plastic surgeon has been ordered to pay $22.5 million to former patients after filming them without their consent using ...