You scan the form letter with dread: Yep, it's happened again. Your hospital data was compromised. The letter may specify what was targeted (Social Security number, name, address, email), but ...

CHICAGO - As much as 95% of hospital data goes unused, according to healthcare IT experts. Eighty percent of data is in unstructured text, said John Halamaka, president of Mayo Clinic Platform, ...

A hospital data breach was associated with a 64% increase in annual advertising expenditures. Study Design: Observational data on hospital expenditures were analyzed using a propensity score—matched ...

Critical care patients are monitored closely through the course of their illness. As a result of this monitoring, large amounts of data are routinely collected for these patients. Philips Healthcare ...

In recent years there has been a concerted move towards the adoption of digital health record systems in hospitals. In the US, for example, the number of non-federal acute care hospitals with basic ...

Doctors at Valley View Hospital are used to treating viruses of all kinds, but this is something new and mysterious. A computer virus that infected the electronic medical records system at Valley View ...

A medical data breach exposed the 20,000 private medical records of emergency room patients at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif. incorporating detailed information such as names, diagnosis code ...