[Dataloss] Followup: Tapes stolen containing patient info of 47, 000

[Chris Walsh]

According to http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=storage&articleId=9080322&taxonomyId=19&intsrc=kc_top 
, *financial* data for 47K is on the tapes, but  *** 2,000,000 ***  
records were exposed.

Accorrding to a FAQ set up by the university (http://dataincident.miami.edu/faqs.htm 
):

"The University will be notifying by mail the approximately 47,000  
patients whose data included credit card or other financial  
information regarding bill payment."

I read this as saying that they could have lost everything about me  
that is in my medical record, including my name, address, diseases and  
treatments, prognosis, family medical history, and the like, but if  
the file didn't also have information on how I paid them, I do not get  
notified.  Some clarification would be useful.  I find it hard to  
imagine that a large proportion of these records don't have a name,  
DOB, and SSN, for example, but it isn't clear from what the University  
has said whether they consider this "financial information regarding  
bill payment".


On Apr 17, 2008, at 1:31 PM, rchick wrote:
>
> April. 17, 2008
> BY John Dorschner
> http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/499492.html
>
> The confidential information of tens of thousands of University of  
> Miami patients was stolen last month when thieves took a case out of  
> a vehicle used by a private off-site storage company, UM said  
> Thursday morning
>
> '' Anyone who has been a patient of a University of Miami physician  
> or visited a UM facility since Jan. 1, 1999, is likely included on  
> the tapes,'' the university said in a news release. ``The data  
> included names, addresses, Social Security numbers or health  
> information. The university will be notifying by mail the 47,000  
> patients whose data may have included credit card or other financial  
> information regarding bill payment.''