US St. Lukes Cornwall Hospital Oct 2015 Physical Action (Q10333)
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A data breach risk event
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US St. Lukes Cornwall Hospital Oct 2015 Physical Action
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A data breach risk event
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October 2015
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On October 31, 2015, an individual entered a restricted area of St. Lukes Cornwall Hospital (SLCH) and stole a USB thumb drive that may have contained limited protected health information for some patients. SLCH takes the privacy and security of its patients information very seriously and is cooperating with law enforcement personnel in their investigation. As soon as the theft was discovered, SLCH began an investigation to determine what information was on the thumb drive. SLCHs investigation revealed that the stolen thumb drive appears to have included a file which may have contained for some patients their name, medical record number, date of service, type of imaging service received, and administrativetype information used for internal business purposes. The thumb drive did not contai (English)
