A lawsuit filed by electronic health record giant Epic could encourage reforms to a problematic system, where non-health companies can get their hands on patient records without their knowledge. A new ...

OPM seeks claims-level medical data on 8M federal workers; insurers and privacy experts raise HIPAA and security concerns.

Two thousand years ago, physicians in Egypt documented their patients’ symptoms and treatments on papyrus scrolls. These early medical records served a simple, localized purpose: they supported direct ...

Whether you are getting a blood test, stepping on a smart scale, or wearing a fitness tracker, you are generating a stream of personal medical data. But who truly owns that information? As medical ...

For all the strides made in recent years breaking down the many barriers to data interoperability across the healthcare ecosystem, challenges still remain. One of the biggest is sharing patient ...

The National Institutes of Health is gathering private medical records from federal and commercial databases to utilize in its renewed study of autism spectrum disorder. The intention is to provide ...

ROCHESTER — More than a century ago, Dr. Henry Plummer and Mabel Root created a system at Mayo Clinic that has now become ubiquitous in health care: the unified medical record. This record-keeping ...

CAMP ASAKA, Japan — The speed, complexity, and volume of potential casualties of future large-scale combat operations will demand well trained and efficient U.S. Army medics and a data centric ...