In the name of patient privacy, a security guard at a hospital in Springfield, Mo., threatened a mother with jail for trying to take a photograph of her own son. In the name of patient privacy, a ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Proposition 46 calls for drug testing doctors and raising the cap on medical malpractice judgments. But another facet of the measure regarding patient privacy is stirring up ...

Mobile devices are everywhere, and most healthcare organizations are following the trend and adopting mobile devices at the point of care. In particular, clinicians at hospitals and healthcare ...

Five practical guardrails to get accurate, private and actionable health answers from AI chatbots — what to ask, what to avoid.

Although EHR adoption rate increased slightly from 2012 to 2013, patient perceptions of data privacy and security remain mostly unchanged. However, data privacy and security still is a leading cause ...

The human toll has been severe: 32 people died in ICE custody in 2025, the highest count in decades, and many of those deaths occurred after detainees reached hospitals, according to the San Francisco ...

“Health care changes — type of care needed, the capacity needs and things like that,” he said.

Nurse leaders must do their best to help maintain patient privacy and be prepared to pivot as regulatory requirements change. As nurse leaders, it's important to guide the workforce to do their best ...

Credit: Getty Images A health app may be linked to a patient's medical record, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that HIPAA protects the information on that health app. Unless an app is provided by a ...

What is patient privacy for? The Hippocratic Oath, thought to be one of the earliest and most widely known medical ethics texts in the world, reads: "Whatever I see or hear in the lives of my patients ...

LMH Health's main campus at 325 Maine St. A new message from the leader of LMH Health said the hospital properly notified all patients impacted by a breach of health records that now is the subject of ...

While healthcare data breaches fell slightly in 2024 compared to 2023, the number of individuals affected by data breaches sky-rocketed, driven by the February 2024 ransomware attack on Change ...