HIPAA, or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, deals with protecting sensitive data related to medical records. Penalties can be as high as tens of thousands of dollars for ...

The existing patchwork of US data protection laws does not reflect public preference for individual data use. The survey results suggest that the public is more concerned about who is using the data ...

As money pours into health care startups built around artificial intelligence — more than 350 deals totaling $4 billion in 2019 — the field is generally overlooking the potential litigation risk ...

As healthcare providers increasingly embrace big data, they find themselves at a crossroads: the challenge of using relevant data to improve patient care while ensuring the highest levels of privacy ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. & FALLS CHURCH, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cloudera, the leader in enterprise analytic data management powered by Apache Hadoop TM, today announced that it has partnered with CSC (NYSE: ...

With all of the hype around data being “the oil of the 21st century” and the rise of “the algorithm economy,” it seems reasonable to make it a priority to learn more about how laws affect our lives as ...

Many organizations adopt overly conservative policies that restrict otherwise completely legal uses of health care data. The complexity and differences in data-protection laws are making it difficult ...