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1200 patient records missing from TX hospital district
From: Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:42:45 -0500
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5931497.html A low-level Harris County Hospital District administrator probably violated federal law when she downloaded medical and financial records for 1,200 patients with HIV, AIDS and other medical conditions onto a flash drive that later was lost or stolen, legal experts said Thursday. [...] The hospital district has released little information about the situation. On Wednesday, spokesman Bryan McLeod issued a brief statement to the Chronicle saying patients affected by the breach would receive a letter in the mail and would be allowed to enroll in a credit protection program at the district's expense. The district has strengthened its policies and procedures regarding the use of transportable media devices, the statement said. [...] McLeod later issued a second brief statement saying the data on the device included the patients' names, medical record numbers, billing codes, the facilities where the office visits occurred and other billing information. It also included the patients' Medicaid or Medicare numbers, which can indicate their Social Security numbers or those of their spouses. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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