Operator of 12 Hospitals Informs of Lost Data
An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:
The operator of 12 hospitals in Indiana and Illinois is notifying more than a quarter-million patients that compact discs containing their Social Security numbers and other personal information were lost for three days over the summer.More here.
However, officials said they do not believe any of the 260,000 patients’ information was improperly accessed.
The Sisters of St. Francis Health Services, which operates 10 hospitals in Indiana and two in Illinois, said in the warning letter that an employee of a medical billing contractor copied the data onto several CDs in July and placed them in a new computer bag to work from home.
posted by Fergie @ 10/24/2006 03:55:00 PM
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