The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a guide on HIPAA and cloud computing in an effort to improve the security of patient information.

Healthcare groups including HIMSS, AMIA and CHIME have written a letter to members of Congress asking for a national patient identifier to increase patient safety and the electronic exchange of data.

The personal information of 6,700 physicians and nurses overseen by the U.S. Surgeon General may have been compromised. 

Hackers are best known for stealing patient data through computers, but they may have added an entirely new avenue to encroach on your privacy—by infiltrating medical devices.

Tempus, a provider of genomic sequencing services and molecular analytics, aims to give physicians the tools to deliver personalized cancer care at a molecular level using interactive analytics and machine learning.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administrations (FDA) has announced the seventh annual Clinical Investigator Training Course, in partnership with the University of Maryland's Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation, will be held Nov. 7-9 for healthcare professionals around the world.

The Fort Drum Regional Health Planning Organization, along with HealtheConnections and Fort Drum's Medical Department Activity (MEDDAC), has received approval from the Department of Defense (DOD) for an electronic health information exchange (HIE) partnership with Fort Drum and the surrounding community.

MacPractice, a developer of practice management and clinical software, has released a specialized system of encryption for Mac OS X to keep patient data secure. In an exclusive interview with Clinical Innovation & Technology, Mark Hollis, CEO of MacPractice, speaks about MacPractice and the constant hacking threat faced by the healthcare industry.