Florida medical records sold at Utah surplus store

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SALT LAKE CITY -- The medical records of some Central Florida Regional Hospital patients were sold last month at a Salt Lake City surplus store for about $20, a newspaper reported.

"I find it inexcusable," said Susan Mezzoni, a Lake Mary, Fla., woman whose husband's records were among those sold. "I don't like that they're out there."

The Deseret Morning News of Salt Lake City reported in a copyright story for Monday editions that the records of 28 patients were sold to a local school teacher looking for scrap paper for her fourth-grade class.

The mix-up is being blamed on a shipping problem. But some of the people whose records were sold or whose loved ones' records were sold want answers and assurances it won't happen again.

Herald Tribune

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1. Surplus records???? Say what?

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2. They were thinking green, recycling? nt

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3. Major major problem.

I predict that at the very least huge fines are going to be levied and someone's going to get fired. Prison is also an possibility.

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4. Wow, somebody will be on the chopping block for that

if they can find the person who did it.

That's disgusting and definitely outlawed by HIPPA.