FL: UF warns patients of security breach

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2008/05/19/daily9.html

University of Florida officials will be notifying about 1,900 patients of 
a UF plastic surgeon that their private health information might have been 
breached after the information was managed and disposed of improperly.

Dr. Francis D. Ong, a UF assistant professor of plastic surgery at the UF 
College of Medicine-Jacksonville, stored unsecured digital photographs of 
his patients and identifying information -- such as names, dates of birth, 
Social Security numbers, and Medicare numbers -- on a computer. Ong then 
gave the computer to a family he was friends with in late January or early 
February this year.

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