Nearly a million records, which appear to be linked to a medical-cannabis-card company in Ohio, included Social Security ...

With the exponential expansion of medical databases, the number of records in a single file has reached hundreds of millions, and the number of variables has increased significantly (such as the MIMIC ...

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Hackers have raided databases containing millions of medical test lab patients’ personal and payment information, making off with at least hundreds of thousands of people’s banking details. The ...

By building biomedical databases, medical scientists and informatics specialists hope to fill in a richer picture of a disease phenotype, allowing for better recognition and personalized ...

A new study from Microsoft researchers warns that many types of databases used for electronic medical records are vulnerable to leaking information despite the use of encryption.

When a system like this is in place, a patient will be able to log onto his or her own medical database to get the results of lab tests or review their medical records. Likewise, that database ...

This explosion of medical genetic information and technology has been accompanied by the development and routine use of databases, especially those available via the internet.

Thousands of Coloradans — most of them from backgrounds considered underrepresented in biomedical research — have participated the National Institutes of Health's All of Us program.

The NIH is recruiting volunteers for a $1.46 billion medical database of more than one million people, an effort to discern the genetic underpinnings of a range of diseases and even of healthy aging.

There were tens of thousands of human victims of coerced medical research under the German National Socialist regime. An ...