The health of patients — physical and financial — depends on how swiftly and efficiently the industry responds to the danger ...

An unencrypted database containing nearly 150,000 patient records of a California provider of home health and palliative care ...

Hundreds of millions of Americans have their medical information stolen or exposed to health care breaches. The most recent numbers for 2024 show that 183,241,358 patients had their medical records ...

A wealth of information, including Social Security numbers, birth dates, and health insurance details; a reliance on systems connected to the internet; and weak protections. It's easy to see why ...

Angela lived with COPD for years. During flare-ups, her small hometown hospital was her lifeline — its staff knew her history, and its electronic medical record system ensured her care team had ...

Data breaches happen all the time, and while no data breach should be ignored, those involving health care institutions require special attention. These breaches can be very damaging and haunt people ...

The explosive growth of artificial intelligence offers many opportunities to increase efficiency in health care delivery, ...

The Northeast Valley Health Corp. in Los Angeles County could be a poster child for the benefits of sharing health data ...

Patients who received care at Baptist Health South Florida may have had their personal data, including names, Social Security numbers and medical information, accessed in a breach that impacted one of ...