A state health claims database meant to illuminate costs still has not launched more than a decade after officials first announced it. The delay is contributing to skyrocketing medical spending, ...
Federal health data has revealed a list of unusual objects removed from patients’ bodies during emergency room visits in 2025 ...
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 ...
Nearly a decade ago New York signed a lucrative contract with a health services firm to build a database to boost transparency on the pricing of medical procedures across health systems. It’s still ...
The use of wearable technology and medical apps surged in the years following the COVID-19 pandemic, but research released by Mozilla indicates that current laws offer little protection for consumers ...
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 ...