Stolen laptop presents potential security risk for PA patients
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, December 24, 2007
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Home care and hospice patients in Pennsylvania may be the victims of a security breach. A laptop, which contained PHI for patients of the Western Pennsylvania Hospital and the Allegheny General Hospital, was stolen from a nurse's home during a November 24 burglary, according to a December 17 article in the Pittsburgh Business Times.
"To date, we are not aware of any inappropriate use of patient information relative to this incident and, in fact, a number of factors may prevent access to the patient information altogether, including the thief's ignorance to its availability on the computer or his inability to access it," West Penn Allegheny Health System's spokesman Tom Chakurda, told the Business Times.
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