Office of Attorney General, ME
purchases statewide
personal hospital discharge data
from at least ME
[source].
See more information about the
fields of data shared,
an example of matching real names to the records
in statewide discharge data, and
which states use standards less than the HIPAA standard.
| Maryland Federal Court
had a data breach in 2009,
in Maryland.
A filing error in Marylands federal court resulted in health insurance information for 226 people - including 42 Social Security numbers - being made available to the public for more than two weeks. The private information of Washington area residents was included in requests for warrants to search the doctors offices in Suitland, La Plata, Oxon Hill and Falls Church as part of a health care fraud investigation. The warrants were marked as being sealed and, therefore, were not supposed to be made public.
(226 records involved)
[source]. |