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Protecting Patients and Healthcare, Attorney General Jeff Landry Joins Multi-State Lawsuit

BATON ROUGE, LA – Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry has joined 11 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit against Medical Informatics Engineering, Inc. and NoMoreClipboard, LLC (collectively “MIE”), a web-based electronic health record company.

In their bipartisan effort to pursue a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) related data breach, General Landry and his colleagues allege that MIE violated provisions of HIPPA as well as state claims including Unfair and Deceptive Practice laws, Notice of Data Breach statutes, and state Personal Information Protection Acts.

“When personal information gets into the wrong hands, it can be used to commit serious financial crimes,” said General Landry. “We are bringing this suit in an effort to protect both the patient’s personal information and their healthcare. Our hope is that through this suit, MIE and other companies will re-evaluate how they guard the sensitive health data that patients have entrusted to their care.”

It is alleged that between May 7, 2015 and May 26, 2016, hackers stole the protected health information of more than 3.9 million individuals through hacking into WebChart, a web application run by MIE. This information included: individual names, phone numbers, addresses, usernames, passwords, security questions and answers, spousal information, email addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, lab results, health insurance policy information, diagnosis, disability codes, doctor's name, medical conditions, and children’s names and birth statistics.

The suit was filed by the States of Louisiana, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Carolina, and Wisconsin in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. 

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