Disposal of paper records containing personal information in hospitals.

Joshua Kapil Ramjist; Natalie Coburn; David Robert Urbach; Anand Govindarajan; Kathleen Anne Armstrong; Audrey Lynn Scott; Nancy Noel Baxter

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Disposal of paper records containing personal information in hospitals.

March 28, 2018

Ramjist JK, Coburn N, Urbach DR, et al. JAMA. 2018;319(11):1162-1163.

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A privacy breach is a type of patient harm. Investigators collected a large volume of recycled paper waste from multiple hospitals and found protected health information that should have been disposed of in a more secure fashion. The authors suggest systems approaches to avoid privacy breaches related to paper medical records.

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