More than a dozen Democratic lawmakers warned that a little-scrutinized proposal to collect claims-level data related to the Federal Employees Health Benefits and Postal Service Health Benefits ...

Parents may choose to share their medical records with family, friends, or a specific organization. To do this, they must complete a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) release ...

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 ...

State lawmakers are clashing over an Illinois proposal that would restrict how certain sensitive medical information is ...

A child can struggle for years before anyone puts a name to it. That is one reason attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder ...

Canada’s health systems began shifting from paper charts to electronic health records decades ago. These records hold ...

CareCloud, a major provider of medical records storage, said hackers accessed one of its repositories of patient data earlier ...