Health Data Breach Tracker/DC

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Children’s National Medical Center

722 individuals · submitted March 30, 2018

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Children’s National Medical Center, reported that a laptop was stolen from an employee’s vehicle which contained the protected health information (PHI) of 722 patients. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, diagnoses/conditions, lab results, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, local law enforcement, and provided substitute notice. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its PHI. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Children’s National Medical Center
State
DC
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
722
Submission date
March 30, 2018
Breach type
Theft
Location of information
Laptop
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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