Healthcare is still organized around episodes rather than lives, and without shared governance for how data is curated, trusted and exchanged, fragmentation persists even as digital investment ...

Patients generate vast health data, but private companies monetize it. A policy group proposes treating the data like a regulated utility.

Hundreds of millions of Americans have their medical information stolen or exposed to health care breaches. The most recent numbers for 2024 show that 183,241,358 patients had their medical records ...

Duncan is a board-certified family physician working as core faculty of the Medicos de El Centro Family Medicine Residency in Espanola, New Mexico. Abbasi and Augustine are first-year family medicine ...

Before ChatGPT Health becomes a default destination for people seeking to make sense of their health, we need better evidence ...

Data breaches are becoming an alarming trend, and health care incidents stand out for their potentially lifelong consequences. I just reported how a data breach at a physician-led vein center exposed ...

Medicaid managed care organizations should prioritize children in low-opportunity neighborhoods to optimize health care utilization, improve minority health, and address health-related social needs.

Medicaid expansion correlates with lower breast cancer mortality, yet non-Hispanic Black women and lowest-income neighborhoods show limited or adverse gains without structural access interventions.

CommentaryAttorney Analysis from Westlaw Today, a part of Thomson Reuters. With the advent of a second Trump administration and majority conservative Congress and Supreme Court, it is unclear whether ...

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 ...

Previous cyberattacks in New Mexico have compromised local governments, universities and health care providers.