The nation’s largest pharmacy chains have handed over Americans’ prescription records to police and government investigators without a warrant, a congressional investigation found, raising concerns ...

All of the big pharmacy chains in the US hand over sensitive medical records to law enforcement without a warrant—and some will do so without even running the requests by a legal professional, ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When Jennifer Hughes’ son was in a mountain biking accident last year, she was prepared to go into full “mama bear” mode, overseeing his medical care and ...

Katie DeLand didn't realize she had no access to her 15-year-old son's medical records until a debt collection agency called her about a missed payment for a sports-related procedure. "The mere fact ...

Fulton County, Georgia, is experiencing an unprecedented crisis of jail-attributable deaths—deaths to which the difficult conditions of incarceration were a contributor—in its carceral facilities.

The end of federal abortion rights quickly made a common, safe medical procedure illegal in many parts of the United States and turned routine medical data into something that can be used against ...

Your guide to getting medical records and documents from one doctor’s office or clinic to a new healthcare professional. This can be a multi-step process that isn’t always as easy as it may seem. If ...

The Department of Defense plans to decommission the online portal patients use to access old military health information and recommends patients download their digital medical records if they want to ...

Doctors often must make critical decisions in minutes, relying on incomplete information. While electronic health records contain vast amounts of patient data, much of it remains difficult to ...