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Mary Washington Hospital offers patients, whose private information was exposed online, protection from identity theft Date published: 11/17/2008
BY JIM HALL MediCorp Health System has offered hundreds of patients a free subscription to a credit-monitoring service after their private medical information was exposed online. MediCorp, the parent company of Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, made the offer after patient data became publicly available. Letters went to 760 people last week who had used the online registration system, said Mahogany Hart, spokeswoman for MediCorp. Many were maternity patients who had preregistered online for delivery of their babies at Mary Washington Hospital. Jina Haikey, MediCorp’s privacy officer, told patients in the letter that the company has contracted with ID Experts, a computer security firm, to notify patients of any changes in their credit reports. The one-year subscription is free to patients. To read more on the story, see tomorrow’s Free Lance-Star. Jim Hall: 540/374-5433 jhall@freelancestar.com
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