As experts in health, law, and privacy, we wrote this essay to draw attention to prescription drug monitoring programs and ...

In a nutshell Although 94% of fitness tracker users say they’re willing to share their data with healthcare providers, only ...

Despite growing concerns about data privacy, new research from the University of South Australia shows that most people are ...

The health secretary had promised “radical transparency ... and democracy flourish from the free and unimpeded flow of information.” But when the Trump administration laid off thousands ...

In January 2023, Gov. Pritzker signed a state law to protect health care providers and their patients in Illinois from legal ...

Now when a patient travels from health system to health system, their medical history can travel with them with Watershed Health technology.

Fifteen hospitals and health systems using Epic’s software are now connected to a federally backed health information network. The organizations went live on the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common ...

This makes it difficult for people to know which sources to trust and which content is worthy of sharing. Fake health information can take many forms. For example, it may be misleading content ...