Stolen laptop impacts 13K home health patients
Yet another stolen laptop is the source of a breach impacting 13,600 patients of United HomeCare in Miami.
Data on the laptop included one or more of the following: name, date of birth, address, Social Security number, service dates, insurance numbers, services received and health status. “UHC does not believe that this was a targeted attempt to steal information, but, instead, was a random act of criminal conduct,” according to the notice.
Since the theft, the organization has ensured that all laptops are encrypted and retrained employees in the security and privacy of patient records.
Editor Beth earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and master’s in health communication. She has worked in hospital, academic and publishing settings over the past 20 years. Beth joined TriMed in 2005, as editor of CMIO and Clinical Innovation + Technology. When not covering all things related to health IT, she spends time with her husband and three children.