The need for access to someone's health information arises in the field of medical malpractice litigation. Typically, the parties to such a litigation would have access to the alleged injured party's ...

HIPAA regulations strictly control access to a deceased spouse’s medical records, including those from Medicare. You can only access these records if you legally represent their estate or have ...

Before we can discuss why medical records review is important in legal cases, we must first understand what a medical records review is, who performs such a review, and why it is vital to the outcome.

Tucked inside the 1,059-page appropriations bill President Donald Trump signed into law on February 5, 2026, is a provision allowing organ procurement organizations (OPOs) to have “remote electronic ...

Providers participate in interoperability frameworks, like Carequality and the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, that set rules for the exchange of medical data and allow clinicians to ...

The medical records of women will be shielded from criminal investigations if they cross state lines to seek an abortion where it is legal, under a new rule that the Biden administration finalized ...

Medical records of hundreds of patients at a Sydney hospital’s cancer genetics service have been reviewed following irregularities related to care by a single specialist. According to St Vincent’s ...