More than 144 million Americans' medical information was stolen or exposed last year in a record-breaking number of health care data breaches, a USA TODAY analysis of Health and Human Services data ...

Health informatics saves lives by combining information technology and computer science with clinical expertise and management for better patient care. It's a broad field, and the far-ranging effects ...

In the health care process, different groups look for different things. Consumers want improved quality of care. Employers want a way to reduce rapidly rising health care costs. Medical professionals ...

Changes to the privacy rule are likely to put regulated entities at odds with courts and law enforcement The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) this ...

As healthcare data grows more complex and cyber threats become more severe, the need for strong data governance and cohesive, system-wide analytics strategies has never been greater. Yet even today, ...

It seems like every week brings news of a new healthcare startup company whose app garnered millions in early funding. Not all of these apps will take off, and many are still vying to snag the ...

Easy access to quality medical care is considered a benchmark standard of a first world nation, distinguishing it from developing countries. In such healthcare systems, high-quality treatment is ...

The Montana Legislature recently passed an update to the state’s Uniform Health Care Information Act (the Act), which creates standards for privacy and security of health care information maintained ...

A new approach to hospital discharges at UCLA reduced the time patients spend waiting to leave the hospital by nearly 50% for four common diagnoses and improved length of hospital stay by 2.5 days, ...

A new artificial intelligence tool can scan social media data to discover adverse events associated with consumer health products, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS ...