Patient information data breaches can occur in a number of ways: computer hacking, theft, improper disposal and unauthorized access being a few of them.
Here are the 10 largest reported data breaches due to equipment theft, according to HHS' breach database.
1. Advocate Health (Downers Grove, Ill.): 4 million affected
2. New York City Health & Hospitals Corp.'s North Bronx Healthcare Network (New York): 1.7 million affected
3. AvMed (Miami): 1.2 million affected
4. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee (Chattanooga): 1 million affected
5. Sutter Medical Foundation (Sacramento, Calif.): 943,000 affected
6. Horizon BCBS of New Jersey (Newark): 839,700 affected
7. AHMC Healthcare (Alhambra, Calif.): 729,000 affected
8. Eisenhower Medical Center (Rancho Mirage, Calif.) 514,330 affected
9. Spartanburg (S.C.) Regional Healthcare System: 400,000 affected
10. Affinity Health Plan (New York): 344,579 affected
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