Officials: Staffer copied confidential data at Reading Hospital for training purposes
By Dan Kelly and Ron Devlin
The Reading Eagle
Originally published May 18, 2012
Reading Hospital's medical records system was breached recently by an employee who copied sensitive patient information and used it for training purposes, hospital officials confirmed Thursday.Medical test results, diagnoses, prescribed medications and other data legally classified as Protected Health Information on 12 patients was made public without the hospital's knowledge or the patients' consent.
Susan Heffner, privacy officer for the hospital, said it was the hospital's first breach of patient health information.
"This was old school," Heffner said. "Someone made paper copies of records."
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