Yeah, we have to do the same thing with any storage media in the Medical IT field. We wipe them as best we can, then record serial numbers then take them to a place that will physically destroy them and then examine the remains to make sure there are no large pieces of platters or un-destroyed flash memory chips (ssd's/usb sticks). It's a pain in the ass, but the government is a bit picky and fine happy about data breaches after HIPAA went live.
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