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A contractor's enquiry on a public homework assistance Web site leaked medical records of 20,000 patients of Stanford University hospital last month.
The compromised information belongs to the patients who visited the hospital emergency room in 2009.
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The hospital was informed about the information breach on Aug. 22. The detailed spreadsheet included the records of names, diagnosis codes, bank account numbers, dates of admission and discharge and billing charges. Social security numbers, credit card accounts, however, were not exposed.
Although the hospital in question launched a quick investigation to determine how the leak happened, the incident of the breach raises concern about the security of patient information in the U.S as many similar incidents of patient information breach have taken place in recent times.
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Henry Ford, 2010
Patients' information of the Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System was leaked in 2010. The data that was stolen from a laptop included information about name, medical record number, date of birth, mailing/e-mail addresses, telephone number, treatment and doctor visits of the patients visited for prostate treatment between 1997 and 2008.
The data, however, did not contain information about the Social Security numbers or health insurance identification numbers.
Griffin Hospital, 2010
A similar incident took place in 2010 at the Griffin Hospital when information of 957 patients was leaked by a former hospital staff.
California Department of Healthcare Services, 2010
Nearly 50,000 of California's most vulnerable healthcare recipients lost their privacy due to a mistake made in the mail labeling. Social Security numbers of all the recipients were printed on address labels used in a mass mailing.
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