Going missing? I thought there were government rules and laws to protect people! I guess not, the laptop that was ripped off from the contractor for the veteran assoc. was not encrypted, was not checked buy any one. The most recent one was from a YMCA and had a lot of data on it.
Let me say that all hospitals that I have worked for have had a Hippa policy for a few years. You can not access any patient information unless you need it (all information access is recorded) and no patient information will leave the network. Meaning that any thing you do with patient information will only be on the secure network, you can not save, remove or send any info for any patient. If you do you will be subject to discipline up to termination.
The government set up these rules and it seems they have not followed what they told all other companies to do.
Banks are the same way! All internet access companies need to rethink the way they do business and assign a new number and not use the SSN for access to privet information.
