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 May 18, 2012.
- Organization as reported
- Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, LA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Loss, Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Laptop
- Submission date
- May 18, 2012
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15630, row:6769)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
A physician’s personally owned laptop computer, which was used to conduct business on behalf of the covered entity (CE), Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, was either misplaced or stolen. The laptop contained the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 17,339 individuals and included patients’ names, ages, dates and times of admission/discharge, race, health coverage, medical history, and results of ICU treatments. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, established a call center, and employed a service to provide identity protection services. As a result of OCR’s investigation, the CE established and finalized controls and policies on personally owned devices used on behalf of the CE.