Boston's South Shore Hospital Fined $750,000

[Curtis Baillie]

Security Management Hospital Fined $750,000 After Two Boxes of Data Go Missing During Recycling Transport By Carlton Pervis Boston’s South Shore Hospital has agreed to pay $750,000 to settle allegations that it failed to protect personal health information of more than 800,000 people, mostly patients, after a breach in 2010. “Hospitals and other entities that handle personal and protected health information have an obligation to properly protect this sensitive data, whether it is in paper or electronic form,” Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said in a statement announcing the settlement. Read the article.

[LARMGUY]

I can just see Obamacare headlines in the future.

[copelandamuffy]

Security Management Hospital Fined $750,000 After Two Boxes of Data Go Missing During Recycling Transport By Carlton Pervis Boston’s South Shore Hospital has agreed to pay $750,000 to settle allegations that it failed to protect personal health information of more than 800,000 people, mostly patients, after a breach in 2010. “Hospitals and other entities that handle personal and protected health information have an obligation to properly protect this sensitive data, whether it is in paper or electronic form,” Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said in a statement announcing the settlement. Read the article.

Curtis: I know this hospital very well. My family has been in and out of this hospital for births, xurgery, operations,
and emergency operations. It is a good, good hospital