Health Information Management

729,000 AHMC Healthcare patients affected by theft of two laptop computers

HIM-HIPAA Insider, November 18, 2013

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The theft of two password-protected laptops from a secure office at AHMC Healthcare, Inc., in California, compromised the PHI of 729,000 patients, according to a statement on the AHMC website. The laptops contained data for six AHMC hospitals.

The laptops contained patient names, insurance numbers, diagnosis/procedure codes, and insurance/patient payment information, according to the statement. Video surveillance showed the alleged thief breaking into a locked office October 12.

AHMC Healthcare recently contracted with a third-party auditing company to perform a security risk analysis and to expedite a policy to encrypt all laptops within the hospital group, according to the statement.

This article originally appeared on HCPro’s HIPAA Update blog. Stay up to date on all things HIPAA by signing up for e-mail updates from this blog.



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