On Monday, Chief U.S. District Judge Cathy Bissoon denied a Department of Justice request to force UPMC to turn over records for minor patients who received gender-affirming care. In doing so, she did ...

Google employees were recently required to share personal health information with a third-party AI tool or else forego health benefits. Amid significant employee concerns for medical privacy, Google ...

A recent decision by the Bush Administration threatens to delay or weaken long-sought medical privacy protections in federal law. The ACLU supports the strongest possible medical confidentiality rules ...

Five practical guardrails to get accurate, private and actionable health answers from AI chatbots — what to ask, what to avoid.

Editor’s Note: Marie Cocco is president of Seven Mile Communications, a consultancy specializing in health care communications. She has previously worked in the health insurance industry, in public ...

Last year, I got pregnant with twins. It’s hard to write that, because twins implies two babies, and I have none. After struggling for years with fertility, I became pregnant through in vitro ...

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 ...

Overall, Wachter considers ChatGPT Health a step forward from the current iteration. People were already using the bot for health queries, and by providing it with more context via their medical ...

AI is changing the way doctors diagnose health conditions and treat patients. There’s a lot of optimism about its potential for improving health outcomes. However, because AI requires massive amounts ...

You hear about HIPAA all the time. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is described on forms at the doctor; it’s referenced in privacy policies; it’s even mentioned on the news.