Patient data

HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard is the linchpin of health insurer Humana’s efforts to support data sharing with provider organizations to improve care for its members.

Delta Dental of Arizona is alerting some patients that their information may be at risk after it identified suspicious activity in an employee’s email account.

The Federal Trade Commission has ordered two health systems and five healthcare insurers to turn over aggregated patient billing and discharge data, as well as employee wage and other information.

Healthcare insurance giant plans to an integrated EHR for its 50 million fully benefited members leveraging Rally, its health and wellness platform.

Independence Blue Cross is alerting nearly 17,000 members after an employee put protected health information on to a public-facing website.

Retailers are eyeing health insurers as acquisition targets to improve their pharmacy business, but carriers' information assets and analytics prowess are prizes as well.

The life insurer’s LifeScore Labs division is ready to make its data tool available to other carriers in the space.

Apple’s current Watch has a more basic heart rate monitor, but the company is increasingly pushing to turn its luxury fashion accessory into a serious medical device.

Agency provides information to public health officials on beneficiaries who are dependent on medical equipment and at risk from prolonged power outages.

The number of incidents has risen rapidly in recent years, but organizations are learning from their mistakes and making improvements.