HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal with a submission date of July 15, 2022.
- Organization as reported
- Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital d/b/a Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, NH
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Loss
- Location of information as reported
- Laptop
- Submission date
- July 15, 2022
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11305, row:2444)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital dba Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, reported that a laptop computer containing the protected health information (PHI) of 1,201 individuals was lost. The CE notified HHS and the affected individuals. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional technical safeguards to better protect sensitive data, retrained its staff, and updated policies and procedures.