A laptop computer containing limited health information on 100,000 patients was stolen from an employee's car in September, Baylor Health Care System Inc. said Monday. A letter is being sent to the patients, including 7,400 patients whose Social Security numbers were stored on the computer. The data consisted of names of patients and medical codes relating to the treatment they received. The codes are a series of numbers requiring a medical code book to interpret, said Nikki Mitchell, a Baylor spokeswoman.
Baylor is offering a $1,000 reward for the return of the laptop, which was stolen from a manager's car between 11 p.m. and 8 a.m. on Sept. 18 or 19 in Royse City.
