Business Law

Stanford Hospital Patient Data Publicly Available for 1 year – Do HIPAA laws really work?

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On Friday, September 9, 2011, Stanford Hospital disclosed that over 20,000 patient records were publicly posted on a commercial Web site, which included the names of the patients, admission and release dates, and diagnosis codes.  The information had been publicly  available for almost one year.  The New York Times reported that “[s]ince discovering the breach last […]