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dumpster diving in Folkston GA
From: Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:45:39 -0500
from Redorbit.com http://tinyurl.com/6f2owb FOLKSTON - Residents combing through trash left at a closed physicians' office under renovation found a box of medical records this week. [...] State laws lay out clear guidelines for safeguarding medical records and notifying patients if physicians close their practices, officials said. The records were apparently left in the office when physicians closed their practices there several years ago. The unidentified woman who discovered the records turned them over to Capt. Kenny Jones, a deputy with the Charlton County Sheriff's Office, on Tuesday. Jones said several doctors had offices in the building in the past and he didn't look at the records to determine whose office they came from. He delivered them to Charlton Memorial Hospital and asked officials there to determine what should be done with them. Interim hospital administrator Dee McKrow, said the 3-foot- square cardboard box was "heaping full" of records. "We were asked to hold these records, even though they have nothing to do with the hospital," she said. McKrow said she plans to look at the records in the coming days and consult with other hospital administrators to determine what to do with them. [...] _______________________________________________ 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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