Employee Theft Results in PHI Data Breach for 16K Children

One employee with a retaliatory agenda against Children’s Medical Clinics shared patient information with another former employee.

Employee theft and improper disclosure resulted in a massive PHI data breach at Children’s Medical Clinics in Texas.According to the data breach notification letter sent out to potentially affected individuals, an employee took paper patient records from the healthcare facility. The employee also logged into electronic patient records and took screenshots of the records, sending the screenshots to another former clinic employee.  The former employee who took the information reportedly had a retaliatory agenda against the clinics, which is allegedly why the patient documents were sent out. According to the notification letter, there is no reason to believe the former employee planned to use the patient records to do any harm to the patients, but rather sought to cause damage to the clinic’s reputation. For the full article click here 

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