One barrel of discarded imaging studies — approximately 160 X-ray films — have been stolen from Anna Jaques Hospital in Newburyport, Mass., according to a Daily News report.
An individual posing as an employee of Evolve, the company AJH uses for the removal and recycling of imaging study films, stole the X-rays for the silver contained in the film, which can be extracted and sold, according to the hospital's online privacy notification. The imaging studies also contained patients' names, ages, birth dates, medical record numbers and the date the X-ray was taken.
The theft, which was discovered on Aug. 19, involved imaging studies that were taken between April and August. During that time period, AJH conducted 32,605 patient exams. Patients who had an imaging study that was discarded in that period have a less than 0.5 percent chance that their image was in the stolen barrel, according to the hospital.
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An individual posing as an employee of Evolve, the company AJH uses for the removal and recycling of imaging study films, stole the X-rays for the silver contained in the film, which can be extracted and sold, according to the hospital's online privacy notification. The imaging studies also contained patients' names, ages, birth dates, medical record numbers and the date the X-ray was taken.
The theft, which was discovered on Aug. 19, involved imaging studies that were taken between April and August. During that time period, AJH conducted 32,605 patient exams. Patients who had an imaging study that was discarded in that period have a less than 0.5 percent chance that their image was in the stolen barrel, according to the hospital.
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