HIPAA Blog

[ Wednesday, January 27, 2010 ]

 

Latest Data Breach involving ambulatory hardware: Methodist Hospital in Houston had a laptop get up and walk away. Apparently the laptop, which was connected to a piece of diagnostic equipment, had information on about 700 patients, including social security numbers (which, I'm pretty certain, Methodist used as patient identifier -- maybe worth thinking about a different identifier).

Jeff [12:06 PM]

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