Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III announced Wednesday that a U.S. District Court judge has signed a consent judgment negotiated by 16 states’ attorneys general and Medical Informatics Engineering, Inc. This case was the nation’s first-ever multistate lawsuit involving a HIPAA-related data breach. The lawsuit, led by Indiana, was filed in December of 2018 against…
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Medical Informatics Engineering Agrees to Pay $100,000 and to Implement Corrective Action Plan to Settle 2015 HIPAA Breach
From HHS, an update on the Medical Informatics Engineering breach of 2015 that resulted in a multi-state lawsuit (the first of its kind) in December, 2018: Medical Informatics Engineering, Inc. (MIE) has paid $100,000 to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and has agreed take corrective…
Medical Informatics Engineering, Concentra, Employers, Data Sharing, And Privacy
Over on I’ve Been Mugged, George Jenkins describes what he learned when he and his wife really pursued the question of how Medical Informatics Engineering had wound up with his wife’s personal information caught up in their breach. It’s a long – but important – read, as it highlights routine business practices that may come…
Lawsuit filed in Medical Informatics Engineering data breach (updated)
Sherry Slater reports: The ink was barely dry on patient notification letters when Medical Informatics Engineering Inc. was named the defendant in a lawsuit alleging that negligence contributed to the local company’s May data breach. James Young, a patient whose medical information was compromised, filed the paperwork Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Fort Wayne….
Medical Informatics Engineering Breach Highlights Breach Notice, Privacy, And Cloud-Storage Issues
George Jenkins’ wife received a breach notification letter from Medical Informatics Engineering about their breach. And when George started investigating to find out why and how they happened to have his wife’s information, he was not happy with what he found out. Read the results of his digging and his thoughts on I’ve Been Mugged.
Update on Medical Informatics Engineering breach (update3)
I’ve previously reported on the breach at Medical Informatics Engineering that affected a number of their Medical Informatics Engineering and NoMoreClipboard clients. Today, they provided an update on the breach. Much of it is a rehash of the previous notification, but there are some additional details on the types of information compromised: The affected data relating to…