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By LIZ AUSTIN PETERSON

Copyright 2008 

Houston Chronicle

Aug. 11, 2008



The Harris County Hospital District administrator who downloaded medical 

and financial records for 1,200 patients onto a flash drive that later 

was lost or stolen no longer works there, a district spokesman said 

Monday.



Spokesman Bryan McLeod confirmed the low-level administrator's departure 

but would not say whether she resigned or was fired or when she left, 

calling it a confidential personnel matter.



Attempts to reach the former employee for comment Monday were 

unsuccessful.



The flash drive contained records listing patients' names, medical 

record numbers, billing codes, the facilities where they were treated 

and other billing information, the district said. It also included the 

patients' Medicaid or Medicare numbers, which can indicate their Social 

Security numbers or those of their spouses.



Many of the patients listed on the flash drive have HIV or AIDS, 

according to Harris County Judge Ed Emmett.



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