The Justice Department has agreed to narrow a subpoena issued to Pittsburgh-based UPMC, saying it will now seek only anonymized patient medical records after patients raised privacy concerns in court.

Nine employees at One Medical, owned by Amazon, allegedly accessed the medical records of a deceased patient without authorization following the filing of a wrongful death lawsuit by the patient’s ...

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HealthEx has launched a new patient-directed health data exchange service under the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, or TEFCA. Announced on Tuesday, the new service offers patients ...

UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh will be able to keep all of its patient records of minors seeking gender-affirming ...

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David Confer, a bicyclist and an audio technician, told his doctor he “used to be Ph.D. level” during a 2019 appointment in Washington, D.C. Confer, then 50, was speaking figuratively: He was ...

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 ...