Scenario: This case is based on news articles written by Todd Weiss for the Janu

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Scenario: This case is based on news articles written by Todd Weiss for the January 26, 20006 and February 28, 2006 issues of Computerworld; the following information is excerpted from these articles: One employee was fired and three others resigned after backup computer tapes and disks containing personal and health information were stolen from a parked car in Portland, Oregon. The disks and tapes belonged to Providence Home Services and contained confidential information that in included names dates of birth, diagnoses, and lab results for approximately 365,000 hospice and home health patients. Many of the records also included Social Security numbers and financial information. The tapes nad disks were stolen after an information technology department employee took them home and left them in his car overnight. While some of the data taken was password protected, much of it was stored in common file formats without protection.

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Electronic protection of health information is violated in this scenario. To protect data safeguard has to be planned at administrative, physical and technical levels.

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