4 Massachusetts community hospitals are scrambling to figure out how thousands of unshredded patient records, complete with personal information like social security information, ended up in a landfill despite legal requirements to destroy such records before they are released for disposal.
Partial blame has already been placed on the methods used for required sharing of information with outside specialists and labs.
Once records leave the hands of hospital administration, they no longer have control.
Just think how hard it will be to track and erase digital data.
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