Which conditions are caused by infection? Though it may seem like an amateur concern in the era of advanced microscopy, some culprits evade conventional methods of detection. Large medical databases ...

A cyberattack on SimonMed Imaging exposed personal information of 1.2 million patients, including medical records, financial ...

LANSING, Mich. — Count to three; in those few seconds, hundreds of medical records were stolen. While the thieves grabbing that data likely could care less if you had a sinus infection, every medical ...

A new study from Microsoft researchers warns that many types of databases used for electronic medical records are vulnerable to leaking information despite the use of encryption. The paper, due to be ...

Most databases are controlled by their owners. Medicine is currently in a non-stop arms race among HMOs, insurers, and hospitals, with each hoping to control medical decisions through their control of ...

A range of government agencies, coordinated by the national coordinator of health information technology, is piecing together medical records of Gulf Coast residents by working with electronic records ...

In the back parking lot of a Denver community health center, there’s a blue bus. On it are the words ‘All of Us.’ Inside, a nurse pulls open a Velcro sleeve as she checks the blood pressure of Denver ...

Over the past several years, the field of medical genetics has continued to expand and is now impacting a broad range of medical care, mainly due to rapid advances in genetic technology and ...

Calling this the "decade of health information technology," Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson Wednesday laid out a 10-year road map aimed at bringing medical record keeping into the ...

Healthcare has undergone dramatic revolutions over the last few decades with the introduction of technology. This is especially so with the collection of medical data using everyday objects such as ...