The University of Montana released confidential psychological records of
children on the World Wide Web, according to the *Los Angeles Times*:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-110701private.story
Four hundred pages of documents about at least 62 children were posted,
including in some cases complete name and address information along with
results of psychological testing. According to the times, the data was
available for eight days starting October 29 and included confidential and
detailed summaries of patients' psychiatric conditions in much more detail
than in previous similar accidental releases of information. The University
indicated that errors by students or technical employees were likely to be
at fault.
The obvious Risk of electronic medical records is once again proved in an
especially painful way.
Conrad Heiney conrad@fringehead.org http://fringehead.org [Conrad Heiney via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 74]
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