Thief nabs backup data on 365,000 patients - Computerworld

Thief nabs backup data on 365,000 patients - Computerworld:

JANUARY 26, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) - About 365,000 hospice and home health care patients in Oregon and Washington are being notified about the theft of computer backup data disks and tapes late last month that included personal information and confidential medical records.

In an announcement yesterday, Providence Home Services, a division of Seattle-based Providence Health Systems, said the records and other data were on several disks and tapes stolen from the car of a Providence employee at his home. The incident was reported by the employee on Dec. 31, according to the health care system.

So it wasn't the records with my health data on it! Phew! Then again, are they required ot warn the out-of-country people, or just warn the people for whom they may eb contracting? Would we even find out?

and Yes, Joey, they have your canuck ass on file down there too, since MSP is not technically in violation of a law formed after it shipped all your data over the border. You like NSA people reading about your plantar's wart?

Phew, so that's a relief. I think I want to write my new MLA and ask why the hell my MSP records are being held on the premises of a company in the most war-mongering self-surveilling country known to man. Fuck, we could outsource them to fucking North Korea and I'd feel safer about my personal health info.