On May 26, 2023, Nonstop Administration and Insurance Services (“Nonstop”) filed a notice of data breach on behalf of Eisner Health after learning that a 2022 cyberattack compromised confidential ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires healthcare employees to use or share only the "minimum necessary" information they "need to know" to do their jobs. Physicians, ...

Physician-patient privilege is an important right that enables mental health practitioners and their patients to foster an open and honest dialogue, and to keep records that are presumed to be private ...

Confidentiality in adolescent health care underpins trust, autonomy and effective clinical outcomes. Across diverse settings, private consultations—often termed “time alone” with a provider—enable ...

Service members encounter a wide range of both rewarding and demanding experiences throughout their careers. Some unique challenges can include frequent relocations, family separations, irregular work ...

Some twenty years ago, we published a two-part column examining the liability of healthcare providers for breach of physician ...

Confidential files from Axis Health System that contain sensitive information including patient names, their addresses, treatment records and other personally identifying information were leaked by ...

This Pew Research Center report looks at Americans’ views on health information and how they view their own health. Pew Research Center does research to help the public, media and decision-makers ...