[Dataloss] FL: UF warns patients of security breach

[TS Glassey]

So then what should happen to this doctor for his actions?

Todd

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>
> http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2008/05/19/daily9.html
>
> University of Florida officials will be notifying about 1,900 patients of
> a UF plastic surgeon that their private health information might have been
> breached after the information was managed and disposed of improperly.
>
> Dr. Francis D. Ong, a UF assistant professor of plastic surgery at the UF
> College of Medicine-Jacksonville, stored unsecured digital photographs of
> his patients and identifying information -- such as names, dates of birth,
> Social Security numbers, and Medicare numbers -- on a computer. Ong then
> gave the computer to a family he was friends with in late January or early
> February this year.
>
> [...]
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