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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