Local Man Sentenced For Deleting Medical Records

Local Man Sentenced For Deleting Medical Records – San Diego

This story strikes me as being very strange, as audit trails run on everything that is done today, and especially when this was done inside, he should have known there would be elements to be traced. This story does make a good case though for having a personal health record of your own, “just in case”. There’s just never enough back up today. BD

Jon Paul Oson, of Chula Vista, was sentenced to more than 5 years in prison for hacking into the database of a local health clinic. It was the very person trusted to protect the Council of Community Health Clinics who went on a hacking rampage. "The doctors did not have available & knowledge of the other drugs the patients needed and there were treatment complications in the records in the computer that weren't available to the doctors," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Mitch Dembin. Oson worked as the clinic's technical services manager. He resigned after an unfavorable job evaluation. That is when investigators said Oson started deleting patient files. "About a week before the most devastating of his attacks, he broke into the system and deleted the program that would have caused the data to be backed up," said Dembin.