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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the intersection between your healthcare and your money. Yours is a relatively common complaint — that medical ...

For decades researchers have run longitudinal studies to gain new insights into health and illness. By regularly recording information about the same individuals' medical history and care over many ...

HIPAA regulations strictly control access to a deceased spouse’s medical records, including those from Medicare. You can only access these records if you legally represent their estate or have ...

Gone are the days when people kept their family physician past childhood through young adulthood and parenthood and into old age. Now most health care consists of an assortment of primary care ...

The clunky interfaces of electronic health records aren’t just a pain for clinicians to work with — they can also occasionally endanger patients, new research says. A team of researchers at MedStar, a ...

Advances in medical imaging and the proliferation of diagnostic and screening tests have generated mountains of data on patient health. Digital information technology has seemed poised to ...

After HCA Healthcare announced this month that the personal identification data of roughly 11 million HCA patients in 20 states had been exposed in a breach, people may be justifiably concerned that ...

People are feeding blood test results, doctor’s notes and surgical reports into ChatGPT and the like. Experts have some concerns. Credit...Ricardo Santos Supported by By Maggie Astor Mollie Kerr, a 26 ...