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Privacy breach shuts down tech project
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Aug. 14, 2006
Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C., last month shut down its electronic prescribing pilot after it learned that the personal data of 5,600 to 23,000 patients had been exposed, Wired News reported on July 25. The security breach occurred when an Indiana-based technology consultant accidentally discovered a cache of data, including names, addresses, Social Security numbers and dates of births, but not medical data, of patients at the Washington, D.C.-based hospital, while working to install medical software for a client, Wired News said.
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