Recent advances in technology have significantly improved the accuracy of genetic testing
and analysis, and substantially reduced its cost, resulting in a dramatic increase in the …

Information security and privacy in the healthcare sector is an issue of growing importance.
The adoption of digital patient records, increased regulation, provider consolidation and the …

Patient-generated data is increasingly common in chronic disease care management.
Smartphone applications and wearable sensors help patients more easily collect health …

Expert authors present an up-to-date overview of health law as it affects the professionals,
institutions, and entities that deliver and finance health care in the United States. Considers …

For more than two decades, Health Law: Cases, Materials and Problems has defined the
field of health law, providing a balanced overview of law as it affects patients, professionals …

As levels of criminal punishment have risen in the United States, more and more citizens
now face the collateral consequences of arrest and conviction. Such consequences are …

Vast amounts of information are daily exchanged and/or released. The sensitive nature of
much of this information creates a serious privacy threat when documents are uncontrollably …

In the foreseeable future, it is likely that the familiar, paper-based patient medical files,
contained in thick folders and stored on long shelves or in filing cabinets, will become a …

This article explains how the structure of US health-care data protection (specifically its
sectoral and downstream properties) has led to a chronically uneven policy environment for …

The new Administration will determine the future of privacy protection in the United States. At
first sight, much the same could have been said of all the administrations of the last five or …