In an interview with POLITICO, HHS Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy Thomas Keane said the agency has been more ...

Credit: Getty Images. Although convenient access to health information online has the potential to improve outcomes as the result of patients being more informed, ensuring the accuracy of that ...

This explainer provides a high-level overview of these protections and the statutes that establish such rights, certain ...

To track the use of web-based patient portals and smartphone applications by patients seeking their health information, the U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released an analysis ...

Free medical record access and creating unique patient identifiers are some of the proposed ideas one representative is trying to pass in order to give patients easier access to their medical records, ...

Credit: Getty Images To ensure patients have useful information they can benefit from, it is important to avoid patient education overload. Here clinicians are provided with tools to ensure clear and ...

Abridge starts from first principles: The base unit of healthcare is a clinician caring for a patient. Built around that ...

Legal Hazard in Cancer Care: A Call for Systematic Legal Support We suggest that a multimodal approach to patient education, combining print materials and online resources, can encourage equity and ...

Cambridge (Mass.) Health Alliance began notifying roughly 2,500 patients an unauthorized third party had some of their protected health information, according to a notice on the organization’s website ...

In December 2025, Annals of Internal Medicine and the American College of Physicians held a panel discussion on health-related misinformation and disinformation. The panelists, physicians with ...