Health Data Breach Tracker/TX

Healthcare Provider · Archived

The Methodist Hospital

689 individuals · submitted January 25, 2010

About this report

An unencrypted laptop computer was stolen from the covered entity's unlocked testing office. The laptop computer contained the protected health information of approximately 689 individuals. The protected health information involved in the breach included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and the age, gender, race, and medication information of affected individuals. Following the breach, the covered entity restricted the storage of electronic protected health information to network drives. Additionally, OCR's investigation resulted in the covered entity improving their physical safeguards and in retraining employees. \

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
The Methodist Hospital
State
TX
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
689
Submission date
January 25, 2010
Breach type
Theft
Location of information
Other
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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