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Oregon hospital loses 5,000 X-rays
E-Health Trend Watch, July 21, 2006
St. Anthony Hospital in Pendleton, OR, announced that it lost more than 5,000 archived X-ray images from 900 patients due to the failure of an information technology system at their facility.
St. Anthony is a client of San Diego-based GE Healthcare. GE informed the facility that the images may not be retrievable due to a computer disk failure. The patients' written X-ray reports are available, but the actual images are lost. Doctors made the discovery when they tried to access X-rays from earlier in the year.
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