Health Data Breach Tracker/CA

Healthcare Provider · Archived

St. Joseph Heritage Healthcare

22,012 individuals · submitted April 23, 2010

About this report

22 computers were stolen from Clinical Management Service office.Five of the stolen computers contained the protected health information of approximately 22,012 individuals. The protected health information involved in the breach included name, date of birth, social security number, referral number, encounter number, facility, member ID, diagnosis, procedure, and/or diagnosis code. As a result of this incident, St. Joseph notified the potentially affected individuals, notified the local media, installed security cameras, re-trained employees, and installed encryption software on all laptops and Computers enterprise-wide. OCR's investigation resulted in the covered entity improving their physical and technological safeguards and retraining employees. \

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
St. Joseph Heritage Healthcare
State
CA
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
22,012
Submission date
April 23, 2010
Breach type
Theft
Location of information
Desktop Computer
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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