Whether you are getting a blood test, stepping on a smart scale, or wearing a fitness tracker, you are generating a stream of personal medical data. But who truly owns that information? As medical ...

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 ...

Emerging medical technologies are testing how law regulates ownership, data and responsibility when devices become part of the person.

ROCHESTER — More than a century ago, Dr. Henry Plummer and Mabel Root created a system at Mayo Clinic that has now become ubiquitous in health care: the unified medical record. This record-keeping ...

The practice of medicine has undergone an incredible, albeit incomplete, transformation over the past 50 years, moving steadily from a field informed primarily by expert opinion and the anecdotal ...

The National Institutes of Health is gathering private medical records from federal and commercial databases to utilize in its renewed study of autism spectrum disorder. The intention is to provide ...

OpenAI Group PBC announced today that it has acquired Torch Health Inc., a healthcare technology startup focused on unifying personal medical data, as the artificial intelligence company moves to ...

A lawsuit filed by electronic health record giant Epic could encourage reforms to a problematic system, where non-health companies can get their hands on patient records without their knowledge. A new ...

For all the strides made in recent years breaking down the many barriers to data interoperability across the healthcare ecosystem, challenges still remain. One of the biggest is sharing patient ...

The Indian Council of Medical Research has implemented a new mandate that prioritises clinical trials based on Indian body types and lifestyles for greater accuracy. Here is what you should know and ...