Epic Systems and several healthcare providers have sued Health Gorilla and other companies, alleging they exploited ...

Your health information might feel private and secure with your doctor, but the reality is far more complicated. Data brokers collect a wide range of sensitive health data, from diagnoses and ...

Kaiser Permanente settlement highlights how health websites collect and share user data and what privacy protections really apply online.

On January 22, the New York State Legislature passed Senate Bill S929, titled the New York Health Information Privacy Act (NYHIPA), which is poised to redefine how ...

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Four years after consumers first filed a class-action lawsuit against Meta, Flo Health, Google and Flurry, a jury in California has finally made a decision regarding the case. On August 1, a jury ...

As society becomes increasingly electronic, data breaches are a major problem for many organizations. Concern for data breaches in the healthcare industry is especially prevalent because of the ...

The new federal Health Technology Ecosystem that President Donald Trump announced from the White House on Wednesday is designed to kill the need for faxed patient records and open up app-based ...