Indiana - St. Francis contractor 'misplaces' sensitive patient info

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Oct 23, 2006 04:27 PM

Steve Jefferson/Eyewitness News

Indianapolis - Personal information belonging to more than a quarter 
million hospital patients temporarily ended up in the wrong hands. A 
contractor for St. Francis Hospital misplaced names and Social Security 
numbers of 260,000 people. Now St. Francis Hospital officials hope to 
convince more than a quarter million patients their personal information 
is safe and sound.

A medical records contractor called Advanced Receivable Strategy sent out 
260,000 letters informing patients about a possible disclosure of their 
personal information. It stems from an ARS employee who lost patients' 
names and or Social Security number a company compact disc.

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