Who's Violating Your Medical Privacy? This Search Engine Shows You
CVS, Walgreens, Kaiser, and Department of Veterans Affairs among biggest leakers, reports ProPublica. Now you can look up the details.
The U.S. has strict rules against the unauthorized sharing of medical records, codified in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. But a new report by the investigative journalists at ProPublica uncovered plenty of privacy breaches, suggesting that the government has been shoddy at enforcing the law and in tracking repeat offenders. CVS, for example, violated HIPAA 204 times between 2011 and 2014; the government's own Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) led the march of shame, with 220 major violations.