Information on hearing aid patients from Bismarck, N.D.-based Medcenter One was stolen in a break-in of an employee's vehicle on the weekend of Oct. 21, according to a health system news release.
During the break-in, personal property, hearing aid parts and equipment, one laptop and a bag containing papers with patient information were stolen. The bag held 11 internal paper forms to process hearing aid patient charges and was found days later apparently undisturbed.
The information on the forms includes names, birth dates, addresses, phone numbers, insurance companies and policy numbers, Medicare numbers and patients' hearing diagnoses. The laptop, which was password-protected, contained 650 hearing aid patients' information dating from approximately 2003. The data, which was housed in a password-protected program, includes names, birth dates and hearing tests.
Medcenter One is providing free credit monitoring to affected individuals.
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During the break-in, personal property, hearing aid parts and equipment, one laptop and a bag containing papers with patient information were stolen. The bag held 11 internal paper forms to process hearing aid patient charges and was found days later apparently undisturbed.
The information on the forms includes names, birth dates, addresses, phone numbers, insurance companies and policy numbers, Medicare numbers and patients' hearing diagnoses. The laptop, which was password-protected, contained 650 hearing aid patients' information dating from approximately 2003. The data, which was housed in a password-protected program, includes names, birth dates and hearing tests.
Medcenter One is providing free credit monitoring to affected individuals.
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