Category Archives: Privacy Breaches

Identity theft at Kaiser Permanente — Again

Kaiser warns of ID thefts from Harbor City facility Redondo Beach police arrest two contract employees after hospital records were used to obtain credit cards. By Larry Altman Daily Breeze Kaiser Permanente South Bay Medical Center has sent letters to 25,000 members warning that two contract employees stole personal information from patients’ records and ran… Read More »

DMHC fines Kaiser Permanente $200,000 for exposing patient information on the Internet

[editor: On June 20, 2005 the California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) issued the following press release announcing the outcome of its investigation into Kaiser Permanente’s unlawful disclosure of confidential patient information on the Internet. Kaiser has clearly been caught, yet is still pursuing its baseless lawsuit against the whistleblower. The DMHC doesn’t even… Read More »

Tell the Truth Kaiser!

On Friday March 11, 2005 Barbara Feder Ostrov of the San Jose Mercury News reported that “Kaiser Permanente is notifying 140 patients that a disgruntled former employee posted confidential information about them on her Weblog.” What Kaiser isn’t telling these patients, or the media, is that the former employee they are accusing of posting this… Read More »