The question is not whether it will be used — it is who owns it, who benefits from it, and whether patients are participants ...

Medical data breaches are becoming increasingly prevalent, posing significant threats to patient privacy. According to the HIPAA Journal, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services tracked a ...

Hundreds of medical files were found in a dumpster at a storage facility in Texas, prompting a state investigation, according to a KRGV report. A woman was emptying out a storage unit at the McAllen, ...

At least a dozen employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs improperly accessed the medical records of vice-presidential nominees JD Vance and Tim Walz this summer, VA investigators found, in a ...

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 ...