ICE agents monitored a detained Salvadoran woman 24/7 in local hospitals, and pressured her to self-discharge against doctor’s orders. While detained patients have legal rights to private medical care ...

Nurse leaders must do their best to help maintain patient privacy and be prepared to pivot as regulatory requirements change. As nurse leaders, it's important to guide the workforce to do their best ...

"Blue Button+ can centralize authorization," Gropper says, while Direct e-mail addresses can serve as patient identifiers index. Patients can have more than one address for the purpose of segmentation ...

Healthcare organizations that provide substance use disorder (SUD) services should review their Notice of Privacy Practices and take steps to ensure compliance with ...

The federal HIPAA law protects patient privacy, but some say it can shut out family members trying to help relatives who are experiencing mental health crises. Visiting a doctor's office often means ...

What is patient privacy for? The Hippocratic Oath, thought to be one of the earliest and most widely known medical ethics texts in the world, reads: "Whatever I see or hear in the lives of my patients ...

California is advising health care providers not to write down patients’ immigration status on bills and medical records and telling them they don’t have to assist federal agents in arrests. Some ...

On January 20, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rescinded 2021 guidelines that previously designated hospitals, clinics, and other health care facilities as “protected areas” and limited ...

The Patient Privacy Rights Foundation and the Electronic Privacy Information Center are lobbying Congress for stronger privacy laws to protect electronic medical records. The development comes at a ...

When Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of California announced they had begun giving patient claims data to Cal INDEX, Consumer Watchdog called for a boycott of the database until privacy questions ...