Women’s records disappear from Indiana cancer program
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, December 4, 2006
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Thieves stole two computers that contained the health records of more than 7,500 women patients of Indiana's Breast and Cervical Cancer Program, the Associated Press (AP) reports. The computers disappeared in early November from Family Health Center, in Jeffersonville, IN, which managed information for the program.
The stolen data might include patients'
- names
- addresses
- Social Security numbers
Local authorities are investigating the theft, according to the AP.
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