patient privacy

Medical imaging and personal health data are collected and used to develop a commercial products. Should patients have some say over this use?

Health & Safety

When Scientists Develop Products From Personal Medical Data, Who Gets To Profit?

6:18pm May 31, 2018

by Richard Harris

Data from patient medical records are being used to develop commercial products. What rights do we have over the use of our personal health information?

Queue Listen Now

Do the benefits of wider data sharing outweigh the risks from a breach involving treatment for substance use?

Health & Safety

Feds' Plan To Ease Privacy Rules On Addiction Treatment Spurs Debate

3:40pm March 22, 2016

by Michelle Andrews

Current guidelines require patients to specify who gets information about their care. But advocates of change say that restriction is out of step with the world of electronic medical records.

Health & Safety

Despite A Wave Of Data Breaches, Fed Says Patient Privacy Isn't Dead

8:08am March 23, 2015

by Charles Ornstein

Hackers may have gained access to records for 11 million people covered by Premera Blue Cross. It's the latest lapse keeping an obscure government agency that investigates the breaches busy.