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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A cyberattack on May 8 against healthcare giant Ascension resulted in the medical data of 5.6 million customers being exposed, according to a filing with the Maine attorney general’s office published ...

CAMP ASAKA, Japan — The speed, complexity, and volume of potential casualties of future large-scale combat operations will demand well trained and efficient U.S. Army medics and a data centric ...