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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

More than 14K affected in Oregon hospital breach

By Beth Walsh
CMIO
Originally published August 6, 2012

Yet another hospital has suffered a data breach. The administration at Oregon Health & Science University Hospital (OHSU) in Portland is sending letters to the families of 702 pediatric patients after a USB drive containing some of their patient information was stolen. In total, data for more than 14,000 patients was stored on the drive, along with information for about 200 OHSU employees.

The entire story is here.

Editorial note: It is advisable to not take patient data home, whether it is stored on a laptop or in some type of portable storage device such as a jump drive.