La., a physician and chair of the Senate health committee, has proposed legislation that aims to create parallel HIPAA-like ...

Every second, thousands of people tell their phone or computer something about themselves that they might not want anyone else to know. They’re also doing so on health and wellness apps, including ...

Heart rate. Blood pressure. Sleep measurements. Blood oxygen levels. Once upon a time, these measurements were usually only ...

A New York health privacy law has moved quickly through both chambers of the state legislature and is up for review by Governor Kathy Hochul. The New York Health ...

A new rulemaking by the Biden administration seeks to lessen the harmful effects of abortion bans by protecting certain health data from being used to prosecute both clinicians and patients. But in ...

A California jury has found that Meta violated state privacy laws with its collection of reproductive health data. In the class action suit, Frasco v. Flo Health, Inc., heard in the United States ...

Columbus Regional Health is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that it unlawfully shares the personal health information of patients with Meta, the parent company of Facebook, and other ...

The demise of 23andMe illustrates the vulnerable state of Americans' health data, as med tech companies vacuum up more personal information with little regulatory oversight. Why it matters: Fitness ...

Despite over 2.5 million job-related injuries and illnesses annually and the proliferation of patient medical information as ...

The New York Health Information Privacy Act (NYHIPA), passed by the New York State Legislature on January 22 as Senate Bill S929, is a comprehensive health data ...

Many military members do not seek mental health services because they don’t think getting that care will remain private — and that concern is not unwarranted, according to a new report. Fear of their ...