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Patients Worried About Compromised Records At AnMed

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Dissent

Oh my. Here’s an insider breach from earlier this year that I seem to have missed. WSPA had reported:

Some patients of AnMed Health are worried their information is in the wrong hands.

Hospital officials would not specify how many people received a letter which states someone accessed medical records without a legitimate reason.

AnMed goes on to say the person responsible worked for a third party contractor called Health Port.

The hospital says proper disciplinary action was taken against the employee.

“They got everything,” says Shawn Patterson, who received the letter. “I mean, Social Security numbers, medical history, our religious preference, everything. A person can take that and actually create a profile for themselves.”

When asked about the breach, the hospital would only send a statement which reads, “In this specific instance, our policies and procedures worked as designed and allowed AnMed Health to quickly identify the issue, and provide, what we believe was, an appropriate response to an unauthorized access.”

I could not find any information on AnMed’s site at this point, but I did find media coverage of a lawsuit that appears to have stemmed from this breach:

An Upstate hospital has been sued after allegations that a contract employee illegally accessed and made public patient information.

A lawsuit filed in Anderson County alleges that Angel Roland, a former employee of AnMed Health contractor HealthPort Technologies, illegally accessed patients’ confidential and medical information.

More than a dozen people are named as plaintiffs in the suit against AnMed Health, Healthport Technologies and Angel Roland, including Roland’s mother-in-law Shirley Roland.

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