Disposal of paper records containing personal information in hospitals.
Ramjist JK, Coburn N, Urbach DR, et al. Disposal of Paper Records Containing Personal Information in Hospitals. JAMA. 2018;319(11):1162-1163. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.21533.
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.