‘Snippets’ of Patient Data Are Accidentally Posted

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http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/snippets-of-patient-data-are-accidentally-posted/

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center  said
Monday that bits and pieces of information, including 10 Social
Security numbers, from about 6,800 patients had been inadvertently
disclosed on the Internet.

The institutions said in a written statement that the information was
mistakenly placed on a server from which it became public.

Myrna Manners, a spokeswoman for the hospital, said it appeared that
someone internally had made a mistake, and that there was no criminal
wrongdoing.

She said that “snippets” of data, like names, ages, surgical status,
temperature and pulse had become accessible to Internet search
engines. But Ms. Manners said it did not appear that diagnoses had
been exposed.
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