Health Data Breach Tracker/TX

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Pediatric Sports and Spine Associates

955 individuals · submitted April 9, 2010

About this report

An unencrypted laptop was stolen from an employee's vehicle. The laptop contained the protected health information of approximately 955 individuals. The protected health information involved in the breach included names, addresses, dates of birth, social security numbers, diagnoses, medications and other treatment information. Following the discovery of the breach, the covered entity revised policies, retrained staff and implemented additional physical and technical safeguards including encryption software. The covered entity also removed the stolen laptop's access to the server, sanctioned the involved employee, notified the affected individuals and notified the local media. \

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Pediatric Sports and Spine Associates
State
TX
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
955
Submission date
April 9, 2010
Breach type
Theft
Location of information
Laptop
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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