Canada: SickKids notifies study participants of stolen laptop

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2007/01/c5924.html

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is notifying patients that have 
participated in 10 different research studies about a stolen laptop that 
contained their personal health information.  The laptop was stolen on 
January 4, 2007 from the car of a physician who was doing data analysis.

SickKids reported the incident to Ontario's Information and Privacy 
Commissioner (IPC) and is working in full cooperation with the IPC in an 
independent review of this incident. The laptop was password protected and 
it is not likely that the data could be easily understood by someone who 
lacks clinical training. Patient care is not affected by this incident 
since the stolen laptop contained research data and not patient charts.

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