The pandemic has placed a spotlight on public health -- its workforce, infrastructure and underlying information systems designed to collect, analyze and manage public health data. Informatics, health ...

Common tools and methods of collection are essential to ensure that the data generated within the HIS is standardised and of good quality. When utilised in a systematic and coordinated fashion by all ...

A system designed to digitalise and link up the various parts of Kosovo’s healthcare network is still not up and running, 13 years after it was introduced. Zejnullah Berisha woke up early on May 20 to ...

Over the past fifteen years, UNHCR has been strategically designing and implementing health information tools, including the Integrated Refugee Health Information System (iRHIS) and surveys, to ensure ...

More than 144 million Americans' medical information was stolen or exposed last year in a record-breaking number of health care data breaches, a USA TODAY analysis of Health and Human Services data ...

This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront short series, “Meeting America’s Public Health Challenge.” This series includes articles that reflect on and are inspired by a report of the same ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has announced a plan for a new private health tracking system that will make it easier for patients to access their health records and monitor their wellness ...

Two moments in 2025 revealed how vulnerable the U.S. health care system has become. The first was quiet but consequential. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revised parts of its ...

The administration is working with tech companies to make sharing information with various providers easier. Experts raised concerns about privacy and security. By Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Reed Abelson ...

Patients were inundated with spam texts and other annoyances after the massive HCA Healthcare data hack disclosed last July compromised the records of more than 11 million people. A Florida resident ...