[IP] Med record privacy and offshore workers..

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 21:35:19 -0700
From: Suzanne Johnson <sjohnson@pobox.com>
Subject: Med record privacy and offshore workers..
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MED PRIVACY'S HARD LESSON
"Your patient records are out in the open... so you better track that person
and make him pay my dues."

A woman in Pakistan doing cut-rate clerical work for UCSF Medical Center
threatened to post patients' confidential files on the Internet unless she
was paid more money.To show she was serious, the woman sent UCSF an e-mail
earlier this month with actual patients' records attached....

Full story at:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/10/22/MNGCO2FN8G1.DTL

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