Lawmakers Question NIH Handling of Data Loss

Lawmakers questioned yesterday why the National Institutes of Health waited almost a month to warn 2,500 patients enrolled in a federal medical study that some of their unencrypted medical information was in a stolen laptop computer. The laptop was stolen Feb. 23 from the locked trunk of a researcher's car, but NIH did not send letters notifying the patients until March 20. "The stunning failure to act . . . raises troubling questions," said Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.). Read more...

Posted by Editor at March 26, 2008 11:33 AM