[Dataloss] [update] Birmingham VA laptop

[Dissent]

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/16683496.htm


The Department of Veterans Affairs began notifying 1.8 million 
veterans and doctors Monday that their personal and business 
information could be on a portable hard drive that has been missing 
from an Alabama hospital for nearly three weeks.

[...]

[U.S. Rep. Artur Davis] said the department told him that the missing 
storage unit included the Social Security numbers and names of about 
10,000 people, plus another 525,000 Social Security numbers. The 
information on doctors includes names and Medicare billing codes, he said.

[...]

Also:

http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0207/021207p1.htm

[...]


The data for the 1.3 million physicians who have billed Medicaid and 
Medicare, both living and deceased, could result in widespread fraud, 
such as the creation of fake Medicare and Medicaid invoices.

There are 902,053 physicians in the United States, according to the 
American Medical Association.

According to congressional sources, personal information on patients 
and medical data were kept in separate files, but there is enough 
information that files could be linked.

[...]

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