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UK’s National Health Service loses data—old skool

March 2, 2017 By editor

Over half a million UK National Health Service (NHS) records went missing between 2011 and 2016. When I first skimmed the headline, I was thinking "Another data breach...[yawn]." But, turns out it was all paper. 500,000 paper records went missing. A private mail direction company sent the records to a warehouse. They had either been incorrectly addressed or the associated patients had moved … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data science Tagged With: health, loss, NHS, patient records

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