HIPAA nightmare: A vacant hospital has patient files exposed

The vandalized hospital had hundreds of manila patient files laying around:

A neighbor last week found, lying on the street corner, a 40-page stack of patient intake forms, including names, dates of births and Social Security numbers. And a pharmacist across the street recently came across records blown into the street.

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