Hospital Addresses Online Privacy "Mistake"

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Mon, 01/12/2009 - 09:06

Oops...

Events like this should be considered "Never Events", much like medical errors themselves for which physicians are held accountable.

Yet stories like this, along with security breaches, lost medical data, unencrypted disks and tapes, etc., appear almost weekly.

If medical errors are "avoidable", how about IT errors?

-- Scot


Hospital Addresses Online Privacy Mistake
WPXI.com, Pittsburgh, PA

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