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On August 4, 2016, one of Illinois’ largest hospital chains agreed to pay $5.5 million in settlement for lax data security and breaches of protected health information for millions of patients. This deal is a record payout under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), federal regulators said.

Advocate Health Care Network (Advocate), which operates 12 hospitals and hundreds of satellite locations in Illinois, agreed to the payout in connection with three separate data breaches that compromised the records of 4 million individuals at a medical group subsidiary. The affected private patient data included clinical […]