Here are lawsuits involving four health systems as reported by Becker’s since June 13.
- Good Samaritan Hospital, based in San Jose, Calif., has paid an “undisclosed amount” to settle claims that the health system failed to prevent a June and July 2020 data breach that compromised patients’ protected health information.
- MercyOne, based in West Des Moines, Iowa, is facing a lawsuit for a May data breach in which an unauthorized party accessed its network, compromising the protected health information of 20,000 patients.
- Trinity Health, based in Livonia, Mich., is facing a class-action lawsuit for a March data breach that compromised the protected health information of 21,000 patients.
- Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that the health system let companies such as Google, Twitter and Microsoft intercept certain patient data.
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