Healthcare Provider Escapes Liability for Electronic Health Records Data Breach

The California Court of Appeal has ruled that a healthcare provider did not violate that state's medical confidentiality law when a laptop containing four million patients' medical records was stolen, The Recorder reports. Sutter Medical Foundation could have faced $4 billion in statutory damages. 

The court concluded there could not be liability without evidence that anyone actually looked at the records and the patients' confidentiality was breached, The Recorder also reports.