Hello to all, We backup our Practice Mx software and Clinical software to a removable HDD which we take home every night. In the clinical package there is a lot of scanned documents and letters to specialists which are simple Word files, most of which include Pts names and addresses and Medicare numbers, and lists of medical problems of individual pts. I was thinking, if say my car was broken into and the bag containing the HDD was stolen there is a risk of patients details being accessed. The Clinical and Practice Mx databases obviously could be broken into if one was a computer expert. (Unlikely I would think in the "normal" car thief.) But the Word docs are easily accessible by plugging the HDD into another computer.They are all in a folder called Docs. Can my colleagues tell me what does a doctor do if this occurs? Besides the Police, who would need to be notified regarding this? Would you need to contact ALL the patients from the surgery , say 10,000 people re the theft and that it is MAYBE possible that their medical details have been stolen. put an ad in the paper? Go on Today Tonight? Is there a way of making access to the removable HDD difficult, say putting password access to the HDD? This problem would obviously apply to stolen backup DVD's and tapes as well. How do we get around this?
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