Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Incident: St. Joseph Hospital Medical Records Stolen from data processor

PrivacySpot is reporting that patient information from a Houston hospital was on a stolen computer being used by a service provider to digitize records. Though the information was encrypted and password-protected, the hospital has terminated its contract with the service provider: St. Joseph Hospital Medical Records Stolen | PrivacySpot.com - Privacy Law and Data Protection. See also Health Care Blog Law : Theft of Computers from Texas Hospital Involve 16,000 Patient Records.

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