A data breach at Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital and Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain, Mass., may have involved 638 patients' medical records, according to a Boston Herald report.
A physician who worked at BWH and Faulkner Hospital, part of BWH, lost an external hard drive that had included the patients' medical records. The physician notified the hospital and said patient information had been downloaded to the drive and then deleted. However, hospital officials notified affected patients because it was not sure the information had been accessed, according to the report.
The drive had included patients' names, medical record numbers, dates of admission, medications, diagnoses and treatments before the information was deleted.
The hospital is offering the 638 patients identity protection services, including up to $30,000 of insurance for damages related to identity theft.
Read the Boston Herald report on Brigham and Women's Hospital data breach.
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A physician who worked at BWH and Faulkner Hospital, part of BWH, lost an external hard drive that had included the patients' medical records. The physician notified the hospital and said patient information had been downloaded to the drive and then deleted. However, hospital officials notified affected patients because it was not sure the information had been accessed, according to the report.
The drive had included patients' names, medical record numbers, dates of admission, medications, diagnoses and treatments before the information was deleted.
The hospital is offering the 638 patients identity protection services, including up to $30,000 of insurance for damages related to identity theft.
Read the Boston Herald report on Brigham and Women's Hospital data breach.
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