E-Health Problems Expose Patient Data at Georgetown University Hospital
Georgetown University Hospital suspended a trial program with an electronic prescription-writing firm last week after a computer consultant stumbled upon an online cache of data belonging to thousands of patients, Wired News has learned. The leaked information included patients' names, a ddresses, Social Security numbers and dates of birth, but not medical data or the drugs the patients were prescribed, says Marianne Worley, a spokeswoman for the Washington, D.C.-based hospital known for providing emergency care to the nation's most powerful political figures.
E-Health Gaffe Exposes Hospital, Wired News, July 25, 2006.
