Man is sentenced to year in prison for theft of U. hospital records

One of the two men accused of possessing the personal information of more than 1.5 million patients from University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics was sentenced to a year in prison Monday.

Court records show Shadd Dean Hartman, 37, pleaded guilty to theft by receiving stolen property and attempted possession of another's ID documents, both class A misdemeanors.

Hartman faced a maximum penalty of two years in jail, but Judge Sheila McCleve sentenced him to serve only one year and ordered him to pay $1,800 in various fines and fees.

Hartman also will be on probation for 36 months.

Salt Lake County Sheriff's deputies said Hartman and Thomas Howard Anderson, 52, were arrested in possession of digital storage tapes that were stolen from the car of a storage company courier, who had left them in his car overnight in Kearns on June 1. The data tapes contained billing records, Social Security numbers and medical codes.

Anderson faces felony counts of theft by receiving stolen property and possession of another's ID documents. His trial date has not yet been set.

University Hospital officials said they did not believe that the personal information had been accessed but offered credit monitoring to some of its patients.

— Ethan Thomas