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Hard Drive Enryption

Our Lady lost 24,000 patients

by HIPAA Admin on May 4, 2010

in HIPAA Headlines

We are seeing this way too often.
Our Lady of Peace, a psychiatric hospital in Louisville, KY is in the middle of a painful and embarrassing process.
A flash drive was lost that:
… contained unencrypted data on patients admitted since 2002 and patients assessed, but never admitted, since 2009. Data on admitted patients included name, [...]

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Blood Donor ID Info Stolen in Hawaii

by HIPAA Admin on April 23, 2010

in HIPAA Headlines

A laptop that contained information on almost 40,000 donors, and potential donors, was stolen in March.
Information contained on this laptop includes: name, address, SSN, and medical condition of those who can’t donate blood.
The good news is this laptop requires 2 passwords to access the personal information.
The bad news is it is very easy to bypass [...]

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