President Donald Trump on Wednesday made a fresh push to improve Americans’ access to their own medical records, tasking dozens of major health and technology companies with solving an issue that has ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will begin giving Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) access to personal Medicaid records, a decision that has ignited outrage from experts who ...

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 ...

Mental illness is often, on some level, a problem of bad data and processing issues. Obsessive-compulsive disorder, for example, begins with a simple processing error ...

A California federal court jury delivered a guilty verdict Friday that found Meta Inc., the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, liable for exploiting consumers’ sensitive reproductive ...

Jeffrey A. Hayes has received a research grant from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to study college student suicide. The word “crisis” is used frequently and, I would argue, ...

Two thousand years ago, physicians in Egypt documented their patients’ symptoms and treatments on papyrus scrolls. These early medical records served a simple, localized purpose: they supported direct ...

Whether you are getting a blood test, stepping on a smart scale, or wearing a fitness tracker, you are generating a stream of personal medical data. But who truly owns that information? As medical ...