The Veterans Affairs Department's inspector general has launched a criminal investigation into a physician assistant's alleged downloading of veterans' clinical data at its Atlanta medical center, sources have told Nextgov.
The assistant allegedly recorded two sets of patient data on to a personal laptop for research purposes. One set included three years' worth of patient data and another held 18 years of medical information, according to a source familiar with the incident and who asked not to identified.
Roger Baker, VA's chief information officer, commented on an item about the incident that was posted Monday evening on a Nextgov blog that the physician assistant's laptop was never connected to the VA network and any data she recorded on her laptop was "hand entered." >>>>>
One wonders, after all the security breaches especially at the VA over the previous administration, how many embedded new hires from then are still around and what is their purpose for continually doing these while knowing others have been caught, though they were long after the incidents.
It is well known, check the congressional records, that the previous congresses, 108 and 109, weren't doing much on any oversite of agencies and investigative hearings during their reign in the majority even when the incompetency, at the very least, surfaced.
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