Q: I just want to get my medical records, but was told I “must use a HIPPA compliant form.” Just what is HIPPA? That’s my first question. A: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ...

WEWS: Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, said that if medical facilities are sending bills to the wrong addresses, it is indeed a violation ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have launched Observer, the first multimodal medical dataset to capture anonymized, real-time interactions between patients and clinicians. Much like the ...

HIPAA stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, which gives Americans the right to access their health information. HIPAA gives people the right to access their own ...

(TNS) — Every day millions of people share more intimate information with their accessories than they do with their spouse. Wearable technology — smartwatches, smart rings, fitness trackers and the ...

Learn how pre-existing condition exclusion periods affect health insurance coverage, what limits exist, and how the ACA impacts these exclusions for medical conditions.