Epic Systems says 300,000 people’s digital health information records were accessed and sold from health records networks to ...

Most of us take the privacy of our patient-doctor relationship for granted. That includes the belief that our medical files, which generally provide a complete overview of our visits, our diagnosis, ...

OpenAI has been slowly upping its investments in the healthcare arena for some time now. In May 2025, OpenAI unveiled HealthBench, a new benchmark to evaluate AI systems’ capabilities, which was used ...

More and more patients are accessing their medical records via patient portals or apps on their phones and tablets, and the frequency with which they access these records is increasing, according to a ...

OpenAI has officially launched a ChatGPT Health tab that answers health-related questions and lets users upload medical ...

What would happen if you had a medical emergency? Would the emergency room doctors know what medications you are taking? Would they know about your allergies? Would they know about your pre-existing ...

Bill Olds is a privacy researcher. His column on privacy issues appears every other week in Sunday Life. Suggested questions about privacy can be sent to Bill Olds in care of The Courant, Features ...

At a time when many insurers and health information technology companies are busily assembling databases of hundreds of millions of medical records, Americans find it difficult to get access to their ...