Hospital Fined $250,000 For Late Reporting of Data Breach

Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University has been fined $250,000 by California health officials for failing to report within five days a breach of 532 patient medical records in connection with the apparent theft of a hospital computer by an employee. 

Under state law, that amount is the maximum penalty allowed for failing to report such an incident, according to spokesman for the California Department of Public Health, Ralph Montano. The penalty is assessed at the rate of $100 for every day of delayed reporting after the first five days for each patient medical record that was breached, he said. 

Source: http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/page-1/TEC-256217/Hospital-Fined-250000-For-Not-Reporting-Data-Breach