The Massachusetts Attorney General announced today that the former owners of a medical billing practice and four pathology groups have agreed to collectively pay $140,000 to settle allegations that medical records and patient billing information for “tens of thousands of Massachusetts patients were improperly disposed of at a public dump.” Under the settlements, the defendants have agreed to pay a total of $140,000 for civil penalties, attorney fees,… More
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Gone Baby Gone: More Massachusetts Medical Records Go Missing
Following on the heels of the discovery of hospital records in a town garbage dump, today’s Boston Globe reported that "computer files that possibly contained personal information on about 800,000 people connected to South Shore Hospital are ‘unrecoverable.’" However, the investigation into this breach determined that there was a low of harm risk to those individuals whose records were lost, given that the tapes in question "would require specialized equipment and software to read the information." … More