March 11, 2010, 12:43PM

VA Investigating Security Breach of Veterans' Medical Data

The Veteran Affairs Department's inspector general has launched a criminal investigation into a physician assistant's alleged downloading of veterans' clinical data at its Atlanta medical center.

The assistant allegedly recorded two sets of patient data on to a personal laptop for research purposes. One set included three years' worth of patient data and another held 18 years of medical information.  Read the full story [nextgov]

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