X-Rays Lost to Hard Drive Crash in Oregon Hospital
The Associated Press reports a severe loss of x-ray data at St. Anthony Hospital in Pendleton, OR. More than 5,000 archived files were lost on four hard drives that crashed before they were properly moved to long-term archiving. General Electric is the hospital imaging equipment provider since January 2004 and stores its files. The company tried but could not recover them from the damaged hard drives. St. Anthony sent letters to 900 patients to let them know about the data loss and offer them to take the pictures again, at no cost to them or their insurance companies. The written reports coming with the lost images were preserved but a lot of work was necessary for the hospital to get back to where it was before the incident. Backup procedures have been strengthened with more redundancy on and off-site.
May 7, 2006 Related topics: Imaging, IT & software