Current and potential patients are taking to the internet to share opinions and make decisions about healthcare providers. Good reviews can convert prospective healthcare consumers into patients, ...

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 ...

Finally! A consumer-centric act that prioritizes the rights and protections of individuals, ensuring data is treated with the utmost respect and care. The healthcare industry is dominated by a ...

"Blue Button+ can centralize authorization," Gropper says, while Direct e-mail addresses can serve as patient identifiers index. Patients can have more than one address for the purpose of segmentation ...

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 ...

Healthcare organizations that provide substance use disorder (SUD) services should review their Notice of Privacy Practices and take steps to ensure compliance with ...

A recent lawsuit filed in San Diego Superior Court alleges that Sharp HealthCare recorded conversations between doctors and their patients without written consent, using the information to document ...

California is advising health care providers not to write down patients’ immigration status on bills and medical records and telling them they don’t have to assist federal agents in arrests. Some ...

A recent lawsuit filed in San Diego Superior Court alleges that Sharp HealthCare recorded conversations between doctors and their patients without written consent, using the information to document ...