Canada: Children's patient info stolen from Edmonton hospital

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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2007/11/13/glenrose-breach.html

Alberta's privacy commissioner is investigating another security breach 
involving personal patient information, this time stolen from a 
pediatrician's office, CBC News has learned.

The doctor at the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital had the medical 
information of 270 children stored on a computer memory stick. She put the 
tiny device in her purse and locked it in her office drawer, but the purse 
was stolen on Aug. 16.

"The records we were concerned with were personal health number, name, 
date of service at Glenrose and diagnosis," confirmed Steve Buick, 
spokesman for Capital Health. "Not enough clinical detail, but enough that 
a parent might naturally be concerned."

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