We report every week on data breaches, theft, etc. and this time it is nice to have a broadcast on how McKesson is handling the stolen notebook...as he mentions this is not feared to be actual data base information but perhaps other information relative...there is a big difference between the two...and a good reason for security and not extracting anything from charting that is tied to any type of medical record..not reflective on the case here, but I have seen this done one too many times in my travels, MD walking around with USB jump drives, with Word documents on there with no passwords or encryption that contain patient physicals, HPIs created, etc....all you need to do is lose one of these..MDs using portable devices without any passwords...PDAs, tablets, etc. and patient data has been exposed who knows where...good listening and less than 10 minutes...BD
John Hammergren, McKesson Corp.s top executive, shares the lessons his company learned from having two computers with confidential patient data on them stolen from its offices.
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