While one incident involved an employee purposefully walking out with patient records, the others were staff slip-ups, according to the report.
“This can’t happen,” said Christine Mann, spokeswoman for the Texas Department of State Health Services, in a Houston Chronicle report. “Our patients deserve privacy and expect that their information is kept confidential. We’re doing everything we can to figure out what happened and how to address it.”
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