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

Fowler found an unencrypted, non-password-protected database containing roughly 145,000 files, including PDF, PNG, and other ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

From discussions on health data explosion to the keynote on AI deployment, the Healthcare Security Summit: New York offered ...

Healthcare organizations face an unprecedented security crisis. Since 2018, the number of individuals affected by healthcare data breaches has nearly doubled—hitting 56 million last year. These ...

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

Straight Arrow News investigates how both doctor and patient data are collected, sold and utilized through a little-known $9B industry.