US Orlando Health Feb 2014 Technical Error (Q9891)

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A data breach risk event
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US Orlando Health Feb 2014 Technical Error
A data breach risk event

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    February 2014
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    A computer flash drive containing limited patient information on 586 children treated at Orlando Healths Arnold Palmer Medical Center has been misplaced and is being treated as a data security breach. The information includes last names, assigned medical record numbers, dates of birth, gestational ages, birth weights, dates of hospitalizations, and in some cases, transfer dates of the children who were patients at either Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children or Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies between 2009 and 2013. The flash drive a small computer data memory device does not include first names, Social Security numbers, parents information or financial information, according to Orlando Health officials. They suspect the device was lost, not stolen. But the hospital began contactin (English)