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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Patients privacy at stake; document destruction is a must

At A Plus Paper Shredding, we take our clients' need to protect privacy very, very seriously. Professional document destruction is the only way to truly accomplish that.

Everyday, we read about scenarios where one accident or slip can cost a business the trust of their customers. Here is one of those stories:


Medical records found intact at dump

BOSTON — Four Massachusetts hospitals are investigating how thousands of patient records, some containing Social Security numbers and sensitive medical information, ended up at a public dump possibly in violation of state law.

The unshredded records were discovered late last month in Georgetown by a photographer for The Boston Globe who was dropping off his own trash. The paper alerted the hospitals...

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