Guam: Stolen laptop reveals unsecured GMH data

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.kuam.com/Global/story.asp?S=11509903

There's been a breach at the Guam Memorial Hospital.  A laptop computer 
used by the agency's Employee Health Office was stolen in late-October, 
but hospital officials didn't realize what information was contained in 
the computer until late last week.  GMH Spokesperson Connor Murphy says an 
investigation is underway to determine how the laptop was stolen from a 
locked office.

GMH is required by the federal Health Information Technology for Economic 
and Clinical Health Act to issue a notice of breach of unsecured health 
information.  Murphy says the stolen computer contained the names of 
approximately 2,000 employees, volunteers, contractors and physicians and 
also included the dates of their last physical examinations and 
vaccination, Tuberculosis, and Hepatitis 'B' statuses.

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