David Allison reports:
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta has fired and sued a top executive for allegedly taking the hospital’s proprietary information, including children’s patient health information, numbers assigned to health care providers by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and the state license numbers for more than 500 health care providers.
In a complaint filed Oct. 25 in federal court in Atlanta, Children’s alleges that Sharon McCray, who was its corporate audit advisor, announced her resignation on Oct. 16, to be effective Dec. 20.
Children’s says in its complaint that on Oct. 18, two days after McCray announced her resignation, it discovered that she had emailed to her own personal email account the hospital’s protected information, including “the PHI [patient health information] of children, DEA numbers, health provider license numbers for over 500 health care providers, confidential and attorney-client privileged communications, financial information, internal and external audits, and additional confidential and proprietary information belonging to Children’s Healthcare.”
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