AG sues health care service firm for alleged patient privacy violations
Photo: #Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson announces a lawsuit against Accretive Health Inc., saying it failed to protect the confidentiality of health care records for thousands of Minnesota residents during a news conference Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, in St. Paul, Minn.. The lawsuit comes after an Accretive agent lost a laptop last July in Minneapolis that contained the data of 23,500 patients of two hospital groups. Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson announces a lawsuit against Accretive Health Inc., saying it failed to protect the confidentiality of health care records for thousands of Minnesota residents during a news conference Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, in St. Paul, Minn.. The lawsuit comes after an Accretive agent lost a laptop last July in Minneapolis that contained the data of 23,500 patients of two hospital groups. (AP Photo/ Jim Mone)St. Paul, Minn. — Personal health data on thousands of Minnesota patients was shared with a debt collection company that shouldn't have access to such information, Attorney General Lori Swanson said Thursday.
Swanson filed a lawsuit against the company, Chicago-based Accretive Health, alleging that it failed to protect patient health care records and failed to disclose to patients how their records are used.
The lawsuit stems from the theft last year in Minneapolis of a laptop belonging to an Accretive Health employee. The laptop contained unencrypted health data of about 23,500 Fairview Health Services and North Memorial Health Care patients.
Swanson said a Fairview patient's inquiry into what information was compromised revealed that Accretive had information including names, birth dates and Social Security numbers, as well as a patient's chronic conditions and how they were responding to treatment.
Swanson said the failure to protect such data was enough to file suit against the company for alleged violations to federal and state health privacy and consumer protection laws. But Swanson also said Accretive shouldn't have had access to such sensitive health information in the first place.
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Swanson filed a lawsuit against the company, Chicago-based Accretive Health, alleging that it failed to protect patient health care records and failed to disclose to patients how their records are used. The lawsuit stems from the theft last year in
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Obama’s Stimulus Failed To Keep Unemployment Below 8 Percent As Obama Promised
Obama’s $825 Billion Stimulus Failed To Keep The Unemployment Rate Below The 8 Percent And Is Nowhere Close To The 6 Percent They Predicted It Would Be At By Now. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 1/6/12; Christina Romer and Jared Bernstein, “The Job Impact Of The American Recovery And Reinvestment Plan,”1/9/09; Congressional Budget Office, 5/25/11)
Instead, Since The Stimulus Was Passed, The Unemployment Rate Has Increased From 8.2 Percent To 8.5 Percent And Has Remained Above 8 Percent For A Post-WWII Record 35 Straight Months. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 1/6/12)
The Unemployment Rate Peaked At 10.1 Percent In October 2009. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 1/6/12)
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