[Dataloss] MN: Doctor Loses Flash Drive With Patient Information

lyger lyger at attrition.org
Fri Feb 1 04:07:37 UTC 2008


http://wcco.com/health/doctor.patient.information.2.642107.html

Parents with fertility problems know that it's a very private struggle. 
Couples often don't even tell close friends or relatives they're having 
trouble having a baby.

That's why the loss of patient information at the University of 
Minnesota's Reproductive Medicine Center has leaders there especially 
worried.

Dr. Theodore Nagel, a doctor at the fertility clinic, lost a flash drive 
that he used to back up his computer. The drive holds details of 
infertility treatments for 3,100 patients going back to 1999.

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