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[ Monday, March 02, 2020 ]

 

Harris Health System, the Houston-area public health system, can't find a couple pages of paper documents with patient information on them.  No telling what happened -- the pages disappeared while in route from one facility to another.  This happens from time to time.

Harris did the right thing -- notified everyone potentially affected, all 2,300.

This is also why you shouldn't freak out about every reported breach.  Some are out of an abundance of caution.  There's a 99.9% chance that no PHI got out to the "bad guys," but reporting requirements are such that, that's still considered a breach. 

Jeff [8:59 AM]

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