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HK: Lost flash drive with patient data wasn’t password-protected

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Dissent

Adele Wong of The Standard reports that the Hospital Authority has been urged to improve security to avoid further losses of patients’ records following another incident involving a lost flash drive with unencrypted data. In this most recent incident, a physician from the obstetrics and gynecology department at United Christian Hospital misplaced a USB flash drive with sensitive patient information. The drive was not even password-protected.

This is the third such incident of its kind. On March 25, Teresa Leung of Computerworld Hong Kong reported that a doctor from the ophthalmology department lost a drive with personal data of 47 patients including names, ID number, age, sex, and operation records. And in April of last year, the hospital lost a flash drive with data on 26 patients.

Update: The government’s web site reports:

An independent panel is investigating after a United Christian Hospital Obstetrics & Gynaecology Department doctor lost a personal USB flash drive containing eight patient data records.

The device has four scanned images of a fetal heart tracing record with one patient’s name and identity, and a Powerpoint presentation file with seven patients’ names, identity numbers and case summaries for internal clinical discussion.

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