From Medical Economics - good article on secuirty with patient data and suggestions on how to implement security

http://www.memag.com/memag/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=312270&ref=25
Security has to be a top priority today with medical records. This article offers some common sense suggestions on how to lock down your data. It is much more difficult to obtain records from a server for the most part. If you are a physician using a portable device, make sure you have a password in place if the device does not have fingerprint identity hardware. BD
Jumbo breaches in computer security also plague the rest of society, but when the wrong eyes are looking at your medical history as well as your Social Security number, there's even more cause for angst. And healthcare IT has had plenty of scary mishaps besides the one in Oregon over the last 12 months: