621 N. Hall StreetDallas, exas 75226(214) 820-0600 www.BaylorHeartHospital.com
Name AdressCity/State/ZipMarch 9, 2012DearProtecting the privacy o personal inormation is a critical priority at Baylor Health Care System (“Baylor”). We are writingto inorm you o a matter involving some o your personal health inormation at Baylor Heart and Vascular Center, L.L.P.(“BHVC”), an aliate o Baylor Health Care System, in Dallas, exas.On January 26, 2012, we discovered that an Apple iPad was stolen rom the automobile o a BHVC employee. Te employeepromptly reported the thet to law enorcement authorities and to Baylor. Subsequently, Baylor initiated actions to determine what inormation may have been on the stolen device and which patients may have been aected by the thet. Baylor’s resultinginvestigation revealed that the iPad may have retained inormation viewed on the device, but inormation was not intentionally stored on the device.Te inormation potentially contained on the device included the names, dates o birth, procedures perormed and treatingphysician names on certain BHVC patients. Inormation on local health screening patients, including names, addresses and testresults, such as blood pressure, glucose and cholesterol levels, may also have been on the iPad. Te stolen device did not containany social security numbers or other nancial related inormation. While we have no evidence that your personal inormation has been accessed or misused as a result o this incident, we stillsuggest that you regularly review your medical bills (including your “Explanation o Benets” statements) to check or chargesyou do not recognize. Te attached Reerence Guide also provides details on other steps you may wish to consider, includingrecommendations by the U.S. Federal rade Commission on how to urther protect yoursel against identity thet, andinormation on how to place a raud alert on your credit le, although once again no nancial or credit inormation was on thedevice that was stolen.Please be assured that we are taking steps to re-evaluate the security o portable medical devices, such as iPads, to urther protectour patients’ inormation, including the implementation and enorcement o security measures, such as encryption, to protectany data on these devices. We hope this inormation is useul to you. I you have questions regarding this incident, please call 1-800-4BAYLOR toll-ree or additional inormation. Representatives are available Monday – Friday rom 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. CS. You may also visithttp://media.baylorhealth.com/medianotice or additional inormation.Te Baylor Health Care System takes inormation security and privacy very seriously and we believe it is important or you to beully inormed o this incident. We apologize or any inconvenience or concern this situation may cause.Sincerely,Nancy Vish, PresidentBaylor Heart and Vascular Center
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A letter sent by Baylor Health Care System, in Dallas, Texas, to an unknown number of former patients to inform them about a breach of data.
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