Data Breach Affects 2,777 Henry Ford Health System Patients

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Health-Care-IT/Data-Breach-Affects-2777-Henry-Ford-Health-System-Patients-415908/

By Brian T. Horowitz
eWEEK.com
2011-03-09

The Henry Ford Health System in Detroit has started notifying by postal 
mail 2,777 patients affected by a missing flash drive.

The nonprofit health system, founded in 1915 by auto pioneer Henry Ford, 
serves 102,000 patients annually.

The Henry Ford Health System on Feb. 8 began its investigation of the 
Jan. 31 security breach to determine the affected patients and what 
information the device held. The health system is unaware of how the 
flash drive disappeared, but now knows that patients tested at the 
hospital for a urinary tract infection from July 2010 to October 2010 
were affected.

The flash drive held patient names, medical record numbers, the number 
of tests ordered, test results, test dates and test locations. No Social 
Security numbers were on the drive, however.

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