St. Joseph Heritage Healthcare

Name of Entity
St. Joseph Heritage Healthcare
Organization Type
Healthcare, Medical Providers & Medical Insurance Services
Address

CA
United States

Description
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.
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Location of breached information: Desktop Computer
Business associate present: No
Date of Breach
01/01/2010