The University of Arkansas Medical Sciences in Little Rock has discovered a data breach that exposed information on 7,000 patients.
The breach occurred when a UAMS physician sent financial data to an individual outside of UAMS for analysis of billing charges and forgot to de-identify the information properly.
The financial data contained identifiers including names, account numbers, dates of service, radiology procedures, diagnosis codes and charges. The patients affected were interventional radiology patients seen at UAMS during 2009, 2010 and 2011. The patient information did not contain credit card, debit card, bank account or Social Security numbers.
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The breach occurred when a UAMS physician sent financial data to an individual outside of UAMS for analysis of billing charges and forgot to de-identify the information properly.
The financial data contained identifiers including names, account numbers, dates of service, radiology procedures, diagnosis codes and charges. The patients affected were interventional radiology patients seen at UAMS during 2009, 2010 and 2011. The patient information did not contain credit card, debit card, bank account or Social Security numbers.
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