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Woman mistakenly receives faxes of medical records
Healthcare Security Weekly, May 23, 2005
Several Nebraska facilities mistakenly faxed hundreds of medical records to the wrong business line, reports TheOmahaChannel.com.
Cindy Gamerl, who uses a fax machine for her home business, says she's received 51 faxes just this month-all containing names, Social Security numbers, allergies, and physician names. Gamerl notified the senders of their error, but the faxes keep coming, she says.
Possible explanations are human error at a manual fax, which is hard to track, or a glitch in an automated fax machine.
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